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Revolutionary Soldiers 



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Lake County, Ohio 

with a partial list of those in 

Geauga County 

and a membership roll of 

New Connecticut Chapter 
Daughters of the American Revolution 




BY 

New Connecticut Chapter 
PA1NESVILLE, OHIO 




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PREFACE 

^N 1890 the New Connecticut Chapter, 
Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion, appointed a committee to locate 
the burial places of the Revolutionary 
Soldiers of Lake County, and to pre- 
pare a brief personal and military history of each. 

At that time the number of known Revolutionary 
Soldiers buried in the County did not, perhaps, exceed 
ten or fifteen, and people best informed on the subject 
predicted that the most thorough search would not be 
able to more than double the number. 

No sooner had the work commenced than the 
Committee began to realize the extent and difficulty 
of their undertaking. The length of time which had 
elapsed; the apathy of living descendants and rela- 
tives, when such could be found; the absence of 
grave-stones, and the loss of authentic records, were 
among the first obstacles to be met and overcome. 

A thorough inspection of all burying-grounds, 
both private and public, was undertaken; local his- 
tories and town, county and church records were care- 
fully studied; newspaper files running back three- 
quarters of a century were closely scanned, and in all 
cases the history of those whose age assured the pos- 



sibility of their having been participants in our great 
war of independence, was untiringly sought out and 
brought to proof. 

Much assistance was secured from secretaries-of- 
state of Mass. and Conn, and from the National D. A. 
R. The U. S. pension records, also, were indis- 
pensable. 

All these sources of information, as well as others 
not enumerated, were constantly drained, while a per- 
sistent correspondence was directed toward officials 
of high and low degree, towards friends, relatives 
and neighbors, for proof of elusive facts and tradi- 
tional statements. And now, after three years of 
searching and compiling we bring our labor to a close. 

Should this little volume encourage other local- 
ities to undertake to wrest from oblivion and perpe- 
tuate the names and memories of those brave spirits 
who fought and suffered to found an independent 
nation, we shall feel that our long labor has been 
abundantly rewarded. 

Mrs. Mary E. T. Wyman, 

Chairman of Committee. 

Paincsville, Ohio, December, 1902. 



JOHN ABEL, 1756-1836. 

"Died in Perry, Lake Co., Ohio on Friday the 
23rd of Dec. 1836, Mr. John Abel, a Revolution- 
ary Soldier, in the 80th year of his age. 

He rose in the morning in good health, ate a 
hearty breakfast, and went out and cut a stick 
of wood at the door ; went in and sat down, and 
while caressing a little grandchild who was play- 
ing around him, swooned away and died in- 
stantly." 

He enlisted in the Revolutionary War from 
Sharon, Conn., in June, 1777, for three months, 
under Capt. Jonathan Penoyer; Oct. 1st for one 
mouth, with Capt. Ephraini Meriner; Dec. 1778. 
three mouths with Capt. Amos Chapel; and 
again in July 1779, for three months, under Col. 
Lawrence. 

His rank was that of Corporal, and as such 
he received a pension under the act of 1832. 

He lies in Perry Cemetery. 

STEPHEN AMES, 1748-1825. 

Stephen Ames was one of the early settlers 
of Kirtland township, coming in 1815 from Hol- 
lis, New Hampshire. 

He was at one time one of the selectmen of 
Hollis. He enlisted in the Revolutionary War 
in 177S for three years or the war, in Col. Ciller's 
regiment. In 1818 the first township election 
in Kirtland was held at the home of Stephen 
Ames i one mile south of Temple) on dan. 5th. 
Mr. Ames was elected treasurer, which office he 
held several years. 

His son Jeremiah was made constable. He 
di.-d Nov. 2, L825; his widow Jan. 4, 1832. They 
are buried in South Kirtland. though no stones 
mark the spot. 

I le received a pension. 



SILAS ANTISEL, 1749-1817. 

Silas Antisel (Antisdel, A. Tisdel, Tisdel) 
son of Lawrence Antisel and Mary Armstrong, 
was horn in Norwich, Conn, in 1 741*. He was 
married at Wellington, Conn, to Maria Bethiah 
Curtis, May 4, 1775. From Willington he 
served in the Lexington Alarm, in the Revolu- 
tionary War, in Capt. Heath's company in April 
1775, his brother Peres enlisting from Ludlow, 
Mass., in Capt. Isaac Colton's company, Col. 
David Brewer's regt., in 1775. The children of 
Silas and Bethiah Antisel were Curtis, Thomas, 
Peres, Lawrence, Silas, Thankful, Sarah, Han- 
nah, Betsey and Bethiah. 

They made the journey from Connecticut to 
Madison, Ohio, in the winter of 1812-13 with 
their son Curtis and his family, locating on the 
South Ridge in Madison. 

Silas Antisdel died Sept. 13, 1817, and 
Bethiah, his wife. Sept. 18, 1824, and both are 
buried in the cemetery which was once a part of 
their farm. 

One grandchild (Mrs. Don Wyman of Perry), 
born in 1814, is probably the oldest person born 
within the limits of Lake Co. now living. 

SILAS BAILEY, 1754-1845. 

Col. Silas Bailey, born in Mass. in L754, died 
in Perry, Lake Co., Ohio, July 9, 1846, aged 
ninety-one years. 

"Silas Bailey was a private in Capt. Arlemas 
I l<»\\'s company, which marched on the alarm of 
April lit, I77.~>; service, { wenly-fmir days. Also 
served under dipt. Jonathan Houghton daring 
Oct. and NOV, L770. 

lie was second lientena in in Oapt Jonathan 

Rffarion'i company, Col. Josiafc Whitney's regi* 

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Silas Bailey appears in the list of officers of 
the Mass. militia, commissioned June 17, 1770. 
He is buried in Perry cemetery, and is remem- 
bered here as the father of Rev. Jacob Bailey, a 
Baptist clergyman of pioneer days. 

DANIEL BAKTKAM, 1745-1817. 

Daniel Bartram was born In Fairfield, Conn. 
Oct. 23, 1745. In 1777 he enlisted as a private 
in Capt. Hull's company, Col. Steams' regiment, 

Conn, militia. He saw active service in the de- 
fense <>f 1 tanbury against the raids of the Bril ish. 

Daniel Bartram moved to .Madison, Ohio, in 
May L809, where he resided until his death, May 
17, 1S17. lie was buried in the burying ground 
at Dnionville, near the church. Soon after, the 
church was burned, and it was found impossible 
to locate his grave. A stone was erected to his 
memory in the Middle Ridge bnrying ground, 
where lie the remains of his wife and many of 
his descendants. 

Contributed by Ida A. Mills, great-grand* 
daughter of Daniel Bartram. 

EZRA BEEBE, 1737-1813. 

Ezra Beebe, it is said by some, was the first 
settler in Perry township, the honor being divided 
between hini and Thomas L. Wright. 

He died Jan. 15, 1813, aged seventy-six years. 
He enlisted in the 1st Regiment, New York line, 
under Col. (loose Van Schaik, in the Revolution* 
ary War. 

He was the first adult buried in Perry town- 
ship, and now lies in the Town Cemetery. 

WILLIAM BIDWBLL, 1767-1831. 

William Bidwell Br., joined the Sth Conn. 
Regt. in 17SL' under ('apt. Joseph Jewetl and Ool. 

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Jedediah Huntington. His regiment protected 
the Boston camps and took part at Roxbury. 

For nearly eighty years the Bidwell family 
was identified with the history of Lake Co. Wm. 
Bidwell with his wife and family of six children, 
came from their home in Fannington, Conn, in 
1820 and settled on the Middle Ridge in Madison, 
which plaee was the Bidwell homestead for half 
a < entury. 

Noah Porter, afterward President of Yale 
College, was their pastor and friend in Conn., 
and he exercised a great influence upon the trend 
of their lives, for two of the sons Walter and 
Oliver went back and graduated at Yale, study- 
ing for the ministry. 

Walter H. Bidwell edited at different times 
"The Independent" and "The New York Evangel- 
ist.*' The Eclectic Magazine was founded by 
hi in. lie was a traveller of note, and his hook 
"Imperial Courts," was written after his present- 
ation at the courts of Europe. 

The other son, Wm. Bidwell Jr., remained on 
the farm, and was the main stay of the family, 
a good husband and father, honorable in all 
things. <>f such stock was Connecticut's contri- 
bution to the foundations of good citizenship laid 
by i lie pioneers of the Western Reserve. 

Two of the grandsons of the Wm. Bidwell, 
\\ ho served in the Revolutionary War, were in the 
War of the Rebellion serving throughout the en- 
tire war. 

Dr. Theodore S. Bid well was surgeon of the 
L25th Regt. of Ohio Infantry, and Walter H. 
Bidwell was a bugler in Battery C, 1st Ohio 
Lighl Artillery. 

Win. Bidwell Br. died in L881, and sleeps in 
the .Middle Kidge Ceriietery in Madison, near 

his home 

Contributed by Helen Bidwell Hoag. 

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BENJAMIN BISSELL, 1761-1841. 

Benjamin Bissell enlisted in the Revolution- 
ary War from Lebanon, Conn, in 1778 or 1779 
in Capt. Bliss' Company, Col. Ledyard's Regi- 
ment for three months; again in 1781 for nine 
months in Capt. Munson's Company, Col. Zebu- 
Ion Butler's Regiment, Connecticut Troops. 

Benj. Bissell was born at Lebanon, Conn., 
March 31, 1761. 

At the same place he married Elizabeth Heath 
in 1784, and later removed to New York, spend- 
ing the larger part of their lives at Hartrick, 
where they raised a family of eleven children. 

In 1832 Mr. and Mrs. Bissell were with a 
daughter at Burlington, N. Y., from which place 
he applied for a pension which was granted him. 
Later they came to Painesville, Ohio, to spend 
their remaining years with their son Judge Ben- 
jamin Bissell, where Benjamin Bissell Sr. died 
( tat. 1, 1841, and his wife Elizabeth, Feb. 24, 1851, 
aged eighty-nine years. Both are buried in 
Evergreen Cemetery. 

Benjamin Bissell was a cousin of Gov. Clark 
Bissell of Conn., and his son Judge Benjamin Bis- 
sell was State Senator from Painesville in the 
years 1839-40. 

BENJAMIN BLISH, 1753-1825. 

Tolland Co., Conn., was the birthplace of Ben- 
jamin Blish, Feb. 22, 1753. 

In 1774 lie married Phebe Skinner, sister of 
('apt. Abraham Skinner of Painesville. He 
served as a private in the Revolutionary War, one 
montfa and nineteen days, in Capt. .Micah Ham- 
len's < Jo., Col. Thomas Marshall's regt, from June 
L3, 177<'». to Aug. 1, 177»>; also twenty-five days. 
from Aug. 1 to Aug. 26 at Castle Island; also 
thirty-one days in ('apt. Sylvanus Martin's Co., 

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Col. Williams' regt., from Sept. 29 to Oct. 30, 
1777, in Rhode Island ; and again at an alarm at 
the same place for six days under Capt. Israel 
Hicks, Col. Thomas Carpenter's regt., bom Aug. 
1 to Aug. 6, L780. 

About 17S0 he moved his family to Middle- 
field, Hampshire Co., Mass., where they resided 
till they left for Ohio in Feb. 1804, with his bro- 
ther-in-law, Capt. Skinner. They traveled on the 
snow to Buffalo, and on the ice of the Lake the 
latter part of the way. He bought land and made 
some preparations for removing his family, re- 
turning in the fall to Massachusetts. 

( )n the 20th day of June, 1805, he started with 
his family for Ohio. Leaving his oldest daughter, 
the wife of Orris Clapp, his family consisted of 
himself and wife, six daughters and two sons, 
aged 21 and 12 years. At first their journey was 
prosperous, but in passing through New York 
state, the father was taken sick with the ague, 
the roads grew very bad; after leaving Buffalo 
they found great difficulty in obtaining food for 
man or beast. 

They traveled by short stages on the beach of 
the Lake, sometimes felling a basswood tree, and 
browsing the horses upon the leaves. 

They reached Erie July lb, the horses badly 
worn and unlit for further use. Hen 1 they made 

an agreement with a man named Ross to bring 

the family and stufl" to Pairporl in his boat, in 
exchange for one wagon. The two boys pushed 
on with the horses and two dogs, enduring many 

hardships, before they reached the homeof Capt. 
Skinner on Grand river, shortly before noon on 

July 20. They had had no weapon of defense 
larger - than a pocket knife. 

The family were on the way forty-one days, 
in jeopardy from winds and waves, somet imefl a 

pari of them carried ashore by one of the boat- 



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men in his arms, then walking for miles through 
woods or on the sand, not knowing the fate of 
the others, till through the guidance of a kind 
Providence they all reached Painesville safely, 

July 30. 

They went into one mom of a log house with 

Esq. Merry until their own house was completed 

in Dec. 1805, on land yet known as the Blish 
farm, in Mentor. There lived for twenty years 
Benjamin Blish, rejoicing, even amidst the priva- 
tions incident to a new settlement, that lie had 
placed his children in a more desirable location 
than the Green mountains of Massachusetts, 
where his entire life had been one of severe labor 
and close economy, with no better outlook for 
them. He died .March 11, 1825, aged 72 years. 
His wife died Oct ">, 1844, at 91. They are both 
buried in the Blish Cemetery in West Painesville. 

WILLIAM BRANCH, 1760-1849. 

William Branch was born in Preston, Conn., 
Sept. 3, 1760. In the fall of 1776 when but six- 
teen years of age, he enlisted and was sent to old 
Fort Trumbull, where he remained until the fol- 
lowing spring, when he was placed under the 
command of Capt. Leffingwell, to go to Rhode Is- 
land, but as his enlistment was opposed by his 
family on account of his youth, he was sent back 
to Norwich. 

The lad, however, was determined, and on 
April 1, 1777, he enlisted in Gen. Washington's 
army under Capt. Jedediah Hyde, Ool. John 
Durkee's regt 

lie was engaged in the following battles, viz: 
Germantown, Oct. 4, 1777; Red Bank, Mon- 
mouth. June 28, 177S; Fori Mifflin, Nov. 17, 
1777; and in other engagements and skirmishes. 

During the winter of 17777s he was with 
Gen. Washington in the historic camp at Valley 

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Forge, and was in the forced march from the 
north to Yorktown, under the command of 
Gen. Hamilton. 

He participated in the siege of Yorktown, 
being one of the soldiers selected from the Con- 
necticut troops to make the final assault on the 
redoubt, and witnessed the surrender of Lord 
Cornwallis, Oct. 19, 1781. 

He was present at the trial and execution of 
Major Andre, and was one of the three guards 
selected by Gen. Washington to take the body of 
Andre from the gallows. 

On July 7, 1783, William Branch was dis- 
charged from Capt. Samuel Cliffs company, in 
Col. Zebulon Butler's Conn, regt, at West Point, 
New York, and was honored with a badge of 
merit which he received from the hand of Gen. 
Washington "for six years faithful service," in 
the defense of his country. 

His mind was filled with reminiscences of 
Revolutionary days, and he often lived over in 
memory and story the privations and sufferings 
of army life. 

About 1790 he settled in Cayuga Co., New 
York, and while residing there was made ( 'aptain 
of a company of volunteers that he raised for the 
War of 1812. 

He moved t<» Kirtland, Lake <'<»., Ohio, in 
L834, and to Madison, Ohio, in L837, where he re- 
sided until his death, Apr. 13, 1849. 

His remains were interred in the Middle 
Ridge burying ground. 

(Contributed by l. A. Branch Mills, grand 
daughter <>f William Branch.) 

GARRIT BRASS, 1763-1837. 

din-it Brass enlisted for the Revolutionary 
War from Westfleld, Mass. early in 17M. and 
Served until Doc 21, 1783, as a Private in ('apt. 

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Banister's Company, Col. Newel's regt; also in 
Capt. Smith's Company under Col. Vose. in the 
Massachusetts Troops. 

He married Lucy Matthews on Apr. 19, 1791. 

He applied for a pension June 14, 1828 at 
which time he lived in Mentor, Lake Co., Ohio, 
where he died (or was burned in his log cabin) 
Nov. 25, 1837. 

Old residents who remember the death think 
he was buried <>n school property long since va- 
cated as a burial ground. 

His widow received a pension also. 

OLTVEB BBOWN, 1760-1845. 

Oliver Hrown, son of Zebulon Brown, was 
born at Btonington Point, Conn., in 1700. 

May 26, 1777, at the age of seventeen he en- 
listed in the Revolutionary War for one year, 
under Capt Eldridge; was discharged .Ian. 12, 
177s. Re-enlisting July l, L780, he was in service 
until Nov. L*L\ 17SD. 

He served with his regiment about New York, 
New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania, and was 

in the battles of Uiandywine and < lermantow n, 
and endured the hardships of Valley Forge. He 
was wounded in battle, and was guard over 
Major Andre for on.- "watch," on the night pre- 
vious lo the spv's execution, on Oct. 2, 1780. 
One night he halted Gen. Washington returning 
to camp without the proper countersign, and 
inarched him to the guard-house, for which he 
was praised by the General. 

In L780 he married Mrs. Gracie Welch, and 

lived some time at Norwich, Conn. 

His children were Oliver. Ilosea, I>auphin, 
ami Lewis, Hannah i Bliss), Nabby (Searls), and 
Patience I 1 [oleomb). 

The early summer of ISIS found Oliver 
P.rown with his fainilv located on military lands 



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in Concord, Geauga Co., (now Lake) in Ohio, 
after a perilous journey with ox teams across 
swollen rivers, through an unbroken wilderness, 

ready to prepare a home in the far west. Mrs. 
Brown died in 1832; later he married Mrs. 
Beardsley who died in 1840. Again he married 
a Mis. Hannah Perkins, who was left a widow 
by his death, June 5, 1845. 

He was buried with military honors, and lies 
in the cemetery at Concord Center. He received 
a pension. 

WILLIAM CAHOON, 1765-1828. 

William Cahoon served his country in her 
struggle for freedom in the Massachusetts line, 
enlisting Oct. 11, 1781, under Capt. Samuel 
Sloan, in the regiment of Col. Asa Barnes, from 
Berkshire county. 

He marched by order of (Jen. Stark to Sara- 
toga on an alarm. 

He died in Kirtlaud, Oct. 1, 1828, aged sixty 
three years, and is buried in Ki rt land cemetery. 

JOSEPH (ALL. 

Joseph Call, of Vermont, was in Capt. John 
Benjamin's company of militia, under the com- 
mand Of Ool. Joseph Marsh, from Aug. K> to Oct. 
t. 1777. 

He was also in a BCOUting party from Wood 
stock in the year 1777. He was called out on an 
alarm from March \) to 12, with ("apt. Jesse Saf- 
ford's company Of militia. His name was on the 
roll of men appointed by the commit tee of safety 
Of the (owns of Hartford, Lebanon and Wood- 
slock, who watched and guarded suspected per 
sons, as enemies to the I' ailed States of America. 

He was also in Zebu Ion Lyon's company, em- 
ployed in guarding the committee of safely to 

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Windsor, and Ool. Stone and others to Spring- 
field, service all in Windsor county, Vermont. 

He removed from Vermont to Perry, Ohio, in 
1815, and is buried in the South Ridge burying 
ground in West Madison. His son, Hufus Call, 
was in the war of 1812. 

JOHN CAMPBELL, 1759 



John Campbell, a soldier in the Revolution- 
ary war, served in the New York state troops. 

He was a pensioner in Cuyahoga county until 
1X10, when Willoughby township was made a 
part of Lake county. At that time he lived with 
his son James, in Willoughby. 

He was an early sett lei- of Willoughby, being 
a prominent man there for many years, and has 
many descendants in Ohio. 

It is a matter of doubt whether he died in 
Willoughby or while visiting in New York. 

WILLIAM ('AIM), 1753-1820. 

William Card (grandfather of Jonathan Card) 
died in 1820 and is buried in Willoughby Cem- 
etery. 

"William Card was commissioned master of 
'The Schooner Phoenix' bound for Cape 
Francois." 

"Boston, Mass. Nov. 21, 177G. By a petition 
to the council, signed by Mr. Card, in behalf of 
Daniel Pierce and Aaron Malady, owners of the 
Phoenix, said vessel was ordered for service in 
the Revolutionary War." 

EZRA CARPENTER, L764-1849. 

Ezra Carpenter died Aug. 7, 1849, aged 
eighty-four years, eleven months, and twenty- 
eighl days, ;m<l Bleeps in Bartland <Vmetery. 

His service in the Revolutionary War was at 

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an alarm in Rhode Island, Dee. 8, 1781, under 
Capt. Jacob Ide, commanded by Col. Daggett. 

JABBZ CARTER, 1750-1836. 

A soldier of the Revolution, Jabez Carter died 
in Kin land, Lake County, Ohio, August 12, 1836, 
in his eighty-seventh year. 

1 [e lies in Kill land cemetery where sleep sev- 
eral of his comrades. 

He enlisted in Capt. John Walton's company, 
Col. David Green's regiment; was in the Lexing- 
ton Alarm, and served his country until March 
10, 1 ISO, when he received his discharge. 

CHRISTOPHER COLSON. 1765 



Christopher Colson was born at Weymouth, 
Mass., May 10, 1765. He enlisted in t In- Revolu- 
tionary War July 9, 1781, at the age of sixteen, 
and continued in service as tiler throughout the 
remainder of the war. 

He served in Gapt Peter Claye's and rapt. 
J. K. Smith's companies under the command of 
Lieut. Ool. Calvin Smith, <"»tli Mass. regt 

Be was twice married, and with his second 
wife, came to Chagrin <>r Willoughby, <>lii<>, in 
1810. 

He was Willoughhy's first postmaster, and 
walked to Washington, to secure his appoint- 
ment. 

Id • died in Willoughby, and is buried oo the 
Daniels farm just east of Willoughby village. 

TRACY CLEVELAND, L749-1836. 

Tracy Cleveland was born in Canterbury, 
Connecticut, in lTlit, and died in Ohio, Feb. 27, 

L836. Had he lived until .May 8th he would have 

been eighty eight years <>id. Be is buried <»n the 
Harmon farm in Kirtland, Lake Co., Ohio. 

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In "Connecticut men in the Revolution" is 
the following service of Tracy Cleveland: U A 
private in Oapt. Bacon's company, sixth Bat- 
talion, Wadsworth's Brigade, Col. John Cheater 
commanding the battalion in 177C>. 

"This Battalion w;is raised in June to rein- 
force Washington* in New York; was stationed at 

riat Hush Pass on Long Island, An*;-. 26; and en- 
gaged in the battle of the following day; nar- 
rowly escaped capture in retreat from New York, 
and engaged al While Plains, Oct. 28. 

"Was in New Jersey at the time of the battle 
of Trenton.'' 

For his services he received ;t pension under 

the Act of L832. 

His wife, IMiehe, died N<»v. 5, L829, in her sev- 
enty-seventh year, and Lies by his side. 

ROGER CBAINE, 17(12-1841. 

Roger Craine was horn in Mansfield, Conn., 

May 4, 17(52. He enlisted in the Revolutionary 
War from .Med way, .Mass., in May L781, and 
Served until Dec. 1783 as private under ('apt. 
John Puller and Col. Shepherd, and was in the 
battle ;it White Plains. 

lie married Sarah Whiton May 20, ITS i at 
Ashl'ord, Conn. Their children were Abigail, 
Cyrus, Ahira, Eloazer, 'Power, Horace, Alvin, 
Samuel, Alexis and Ruth. 

They were living in Groton, N. V. in May 
ISIS, when he applied for a pension which he 
received. 

Later they removed to Painesville, Ohio, 
where he died June 3, isii and in is:>7 was re- 
moved to the cemetery in Mentor, Ohio. 

This story is told by his descendants: 

"Grandfather Craine had repeatedly refused 
to sign the temperance pledge, Baying, he was do! 

a drinking man, and didn't cure to sign away his 

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liberty. One training day an old drunkard cried 
out, 'Here comes Roger Craine, he is one of our 
set, for he will not sign his liberty away either!' 
Grandfather signed the pledge that day." 

AMAKIAB CRAtfDALL, 1759-1861. 

Amariali Oandall was born at Westerly, R. 
I., Apr. 2, 1759. 

He enlisted from Stonington, Ct., Apr. 1, 1779, 
for one year, under Capt. Sheffield, enlisting 
again in June 1780, for two months, under Capt. 
Elijah Palmer, and Lieut. Col. Richards. 

During an engagement he was taken prisoner 
by the British, and sent on board the prison- 
ship Halifax, where he with the others had 
smallpox. 

He resided after the war in Willington, Conn. 
from which place he applied for a pension Aug. 
18, 1832, which was allowed. 

He married Prudence Avery of Conn. Their 
children were Elijah, Elisha, Sarah and Daniel. 

He with his wife came to Ohio in 1820 to live 
with their son Daniel, where they lived to a ripe 
old age, he being 101 years, 9 months, and 16 
days. 

Mis favorite pastime was telling his grand- 
children Revolutionary War stories of Washing- 
ton and La Fayette, whom he loved. 

The family keep with great care his old bayo- 
net. 

He died Jan. IS, lsf>l, and lies in the .Middle 
Ridge Cemetery in Madison, Luke Co., Ohio. 

OHBISTOPHEB CRABY, L769-1848. 

Christopher Orary was born in New London, 
Conn, in 1759. 

He was the grand-son «>f Oliver Orary who 

Was a native of Connecticut, His ureal -urn nd- 



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father was Robert Crary, who was a son of 
Peter Crary who emigrated from England to 
America when Charles II ascended the throne. 

Christopher Crary was a soldier in the Rev- 
olutionary War. He was twice taken prisoner; 
the first time he escaped from the Halifax prison, 
the second time, he was imprisoned on the Brit- 
ish prison-ship Jersey, but was finally liberated. 

He was in the marine service. After the war 
he became a merchant, then a farmer, and ex- 
changed his farm for land in Kirtland township. 

He was the first actual settler in Kirtland ; 
his neighbors were seven miles distant. 

In 1837 he moved to Union Co., Ohio, living 
there until his death, which occurred in 1848 at 
the age of eighty-eight years. 

WM. R. EDDY, 1760-1841. 

William R. Eddy was in the service of the 
United States in the Revolutionary War from 
Massachusetts, serving in Capt. John Wood's 
company, Col. Paul Dudley Sargent's regiment. 

He was a resident of Concord, Lake Co., Ohio, 
where he died Dec. 14, 1841, aged eighty-one 
years, and is buried on the farm he owned, one 
and one-half miles northeast of Little Mountain. 

He received a pension. 

LEMUEL ELLIS, 1764-1859. 

Lemuel Ellis came to Perry. Ohio about 1810. 
In L815 he was overseer of the poor, and held that 

ami other township offices until L831. 

From Dec. 11 to Dec. 30, 177b he served in 
the Revolutionary War tor .Mass. under Capt. 
Ebenezer Rattle and Colonel William Mcintosh; 
later he was with Col. Weld at Castle Island. 

He married Polly Call, and is buried in an 
old graveyard on the River road, in Perry town- 

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ship. The grave is marked by a boulder from 
Qrand river which he had placed In the yard be- 
fore his death which occurred on Sunday, Feb. 
LM), L859. He was one of the earliest members 
of Perry Methodist Church. 

.JOHN EMERY, 1768-1881. 

"Capt. John Emery died Dec. 27, 1831 aged 
seventy-three years." 

He was born in Massachusetts, and from that 
state enlisted in the Revolutionary War. 

He served many enlistments throughout the 
war, ranking as Captain at the close. 

He was buried in the historic yard at Union- 
ville, which contains the first authentic grave on 
the Western Reserve, that of Alexander Harper. 

JOSHUA EMMS, 1751-1845. 

Joshua Eninis was a soldier of the Revolu- 
tionary War from Easthani, Mass. 

lie served in the Continental Line as Cor- 
poral, in Captain Solomon Biggin's company, 
enlisting July L3, 1775, discharged Sept. 177f>. 

".Joshua Emms was born in Boston, and was 
there when the tea was dest roved in Boston Har- 
bor. When the British took possession of Boston, 
he was in service in the Port, and the British 
destroyed his shop, furniture, all of his pro- 
perty." 

He was among the early settlers of Perry, his 

name appearing in the township records in L827. 

lie died Dec. 1, L846 aged ninety four years, and 

is buried in Berry Cemetery. He was a pen- 
sioner. 

JOSEPH BMEEBON, L754 L850. 

Joseph Emerson, of Haverhill, Mass. was 



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born in Feb. 17~>1, living to l><' ninety-five years, 
nine months and sixteen dayi old. 

Be began Ins life ;is a soldier in the Revolu- 
tion, at the first call, enlisting Apr. L6, 1 7 7 r> , for 
eight months, under ('apt. James Bawyer, and 
Col. Frye, of ili«' Massachusetts troops. 

During this lirst enlistment be was engaged 
in the battle of Bunker Hill, which In liis declin- 
ing years, was rery rivid to him, and li< k loved to 
tell the story of the battle, and <»r the part < i<*ii. 

William Prescott took in it, to every one who 

cared to listen. 

His second enlistment was July 1777, for two 

nt lis under < "apt . Aaron Osgood and Col. Ly- 
man. 1 le was a pensioner. 

Joseph Emerson married Lydia Foster, who 
died in Massachusetts. Later he married Mary 

Hilton, who is buried beside him in South Mad- 

Lson, neai- the ( tore church. 

He is described as a "large man, six feel tall. 

with hair white as snow, reaching to his should 
ers, which he always wore braided as in the 

olden time." On his tombstone is this inscrip- 
tion : 

Joseph Emerson, 

Died January 23, 1850, 

Aged 95 years, '•> months. 16 days. 

"I have a house not made with hands, 

Eternal, and <>n high. 
I [ere my spirit wait Ing stands, 
'Till God shall bid it rise." 

<>KA EVANS, L760-1845. 

.Moses Evans removed from Litchfield, Conn. 
to North Adams, .Mass. where his son, the sub- 
ject of this sketch was horn in April 17(50. 

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"At the time of the 'Lexington Alarm' in 
Apr. 1775, they, father and son were among the 
first to respond to the call. Taking their old 
flint-lock muskets from the wall, and such equip- 
ment as they had, they hurried to the relief of 
Boston, and all through the seven years war, 
they served as 'minute-men,' their last engage- 
ment being at 'Haarlem Heights,' and so pleased 
was Ora Evans with the country, that after he 
married he settled there. 

"Ora Evans' mother followed the army as a 
nurse, seeking in every way to relieve the sutler 
ing, and tradition has it, that at one time, when a 
man couldn't be spared from the ranks she car- 
ried dispatches, which Gen. Washington wished 
sent to a distant office. 

"This remarkable woman lived to be one hun- 
dred and eight years old." 

Ora Evans was a pioneer of Madison, Lake 
Co., Ohio, settling there in 1812, on the County 
Line road, where he lived until his death in Feb. 
1845. 

He lies in an "old long unused brier-grown, 
cattle trodden grave-yard" on the Ashtabula side 
of the road. 

Ho is remembered as tall, florid, silver haired, 
and still erect, in spite of bis eighty-five years. 

JOHN FERGUSON, 1757-1841. 

('apt. John Ferguson was born at West 
Farms, Westchester Co., New York, on Christ- 
mas 1 >av 17o7. 

His father came from Scotland during the 
French ami Indian War, and Liking the country 

SO well, lie sold his Commission ami settled in 

Backensack, New Jersey. 

on the Revolutionary War records, he first 

appears mi a muster roll of ('apt. Job Wright's 

c... Ool. Van Schaick'a Now Fork Battalion, 



"In Barracks at Saratoga," Dec. 17, 1776. Later 
he appears in Col. Morris Graham's regt of New 
York militia, on a payroll for .March 1778, and 
again in Sept. 1778. Later he was Captain of 

milil in. 

Be came to Willonghby, Ohio, in the spring of 
1824. 

He married for his second wife, Mary Camp- 
bell, daughter of Finley Campbell, and was the 
father of thirteen children (two by the first 
wife); and grandfather of seventy. 

Be died at the home of Leggett Ferguson, on 
Willoughby Ridge, Apr. 4, 1841, and was buried 
in Willoughby Ridge Cemetery. 

LEMUEL FOBES, 1754-1835. 

Lemuel Fobes of Massachusetts was a soldier 
in the Revolutionary War, serving with the "Min- 
ute-men who marched to the Lexington Alarm; 
and later was in the battle of Bennington, his 
company haying been raised to reinforce the Con- 
tinental Army to the Northward." 

Lemuel Fobes came to Painesville, Ohio in 
1803 and settled near what is now Elm street. 

He married Anna Bills of Mass. He was 
treasurer of Painesville township in 1813. 

He died in is:i5, aged eighty-one, and lies in 
Evergreen Cemetery in Painesville. 

lie received a pension. 

ANDREW FORD, 1752-1837. 

Andrew Ford, of M;iss;ichnsetts, was born 
in 1752. 

A soldier of the Revolutionary War, march- 
ing in response to the alarm at Lexington, in 

which he served seven days, in Lieut. Joseph War- 
ner's company. 

Il«- was in the battle of Pennington, and WOU 

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also in i he expedit ion to Stillwater and Saratoga. 

I [e was a pensioner under the Act of 1832. 

He lived in Madison, w hero he died in 1837, 
and is buried in the Middle Ridge cemetery. 

[SRAEL FOX, 1755 



Israel Fox was horn in < ilastonbury, Conn., 
in 17.")."), and served in the War of the Ilevolu- 
t ion, enlisting in 1770 for three months with Col. 
Talcott 

In 1777 he again enlisted for three months 
with Capt. Hale, under Colonel Woodbridge, and 
another three months in 1771); also in June L780 
he enlisted for six months with Capt. lMielps. 

He witnessed the execution of Major Andre. 

In 1832 he was a resident of Mentor, Lake < Jo., 
Ohio from which place he secured his pension. 

Those interested remember that he died in 
Mentor, though the burial place is not known. 

SEBA FRENCH, L761-1836. 

Beba French of Massachusetts was one of the 
verv early set t lers of Painesville, coming in L816. 

About 1771) he married Miss Mary Ide and 
live<l for a time at Clarendon, Vt., coming from 
there to Ohio. They had live sons, Daniel I., 
Warren, Artemas, William and Ezra. 

lb- was a soldier of the Revolutionary War 
serving as private in Capt. Joseph Franklin's 
company, Col. .John Daggett's regiment, in an 

alarm at Tiverton, Rhode Island. 

For his service he received a pension, which 

at his death in L836 was transferred to his widow. 

He died Dec. 28, L886, aged seventy-live and 

lies in the old Washington St. cemetery in 

Painesville. 

NAT NAN FRENCH, L760-1847. 

Nathan Frencfa was born in Massachusetts, 

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Feb. 1 TOO ami died in Leroy, Lake Co., Ohio, Aug. 
30, 1847, aged eighty-seven years, six months 
and twenty-seven days. 

Me enlisted in the War of the Revolution 
July 20, 1777 and served until August 7, 1780. 
He is buried in south-east Leroy. 

He was a pensioner. 

JOSEPH FULLER, L758-1846. 

Joseph Fuller Si-., son of Nathaniel Fuller, 
was born in Munson, Hampshire Co., Mass., May 
2 7, 1758. 

He enlisted in the 4th .Mass. regt. and served 
all through the Seven years war, as private, cor- 
poral and sergeant, in Capt. Keep's Co., 1 th Mass. 
regt., commanded by Col. William Shepard. 

He enlisted April 21, 1777, was appointed cor- 
poral in Sept. L779, and sergeant in L780. He 
received his pension as sergeant, tirst dated Sept. 
6, L819 signed by J. C. Calhoun, and later an in- 
crease bearing date Aug. 13, 1828, signed by 
Richard Rush. 

lie married Rachel Miller, of Bedford, West- 
chester Co., New York on Nov. 2, 1783. They 
made their home in Bhoreham, Addison Co., Ver- 
mont, coming from there to Ohio. 

He died Sept 26, 1846, aged eighty-eight 
years, and Lies in the burying ground on the 
North Ridge in Madison Dear his home. 

JOSEPH GREEN, 1767-1853. 

Joseph I Ireen, I he son of Ebenezer ( treen, was 

born Feb. 26, 17(17, in Sussex County, New Jer- 
sey. 

He enlisted in the Revolutionary War from 

Muncy, Northumberland Co., I'enn., in Aug. 
177H, to serve under Capt. Samuel Brady, for 

three months at Port Brady, Bituated in Muncy. 

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During this period he was with several scout- 
ing parties, for Tories and Indians were hostile 
in the vicinity. 

In May 1782, he enlisted for the war, in a 
company of Bangers commanded by Capt. Thos. 
Robinson in Col. Samuel Hunter's regiment. 

To the same company his brother Bbeneser 
Green Jr. belonged, who was killed by Indians 
April 16, 1782. 

Joseph Green did garrison duty at Minegan 
Fort, for three months, with occasional scouting 
raids, then at Port Borley for live months, and 
was discharged the following December. 

In June L788 lie removed to Chesining, Tioga 
Co., New York, where his dwelling was destroyed 
by fire in 1789. 

He came to Madison, O. May 30, 1817. He 
received a pension from 1837 until his death in 
1853, having spent all his life as a pioneer in 
new settlements. 

Be was a large man, of excellent character, 
and proud of the fact that he gave some service 
to his country in its struggle for Independence. 

The statement was made, at the time of his 
death, that ho was the youngest Revolutionary 
soldier. 

ELIJAH HANKS, 17(51-1839. 

Dea. Elijah Hanks was born in Mansfield. 
Conn., Aug. SO, L761. 

He served in the '•Connecticut Line" in the 

Revolutionary War for eight months, enlisting 
Marco n>. L778 in Capt. Allen's Co., 3rd Oonn. 

regt., of which Samuel Wylly was Colonel. 

August ii, (.782, he was married to Mary 
Walker, of Ashford, Conn., who was born Awn. 
1 I. L763. 

Their children were Joseph, Elijah, Benjamin 
and -lob ii itwinst. Esther, Clorinda and Patty. 

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Sept :>, L811, they left Willington, OoniL for 
Madison, Ohio, arriving Oct. :»,rd when they im- 
mediately went to work to put up ;i log house 

(into which they moved Nov. 8) on the same farm 
which h;is ever wince been in the possession of the 

family. 

other families coming Into the neighborhood 
found a shelter at Dea. Hanks' hospitable home 
until their houses were ready for occupancy. 

II,. died Teh. 11, ISM at the a<re of seventy- 
eight, and lies buried in the cemetery on the 1*111 

in si^ht of his home. 

OLIVES HARMON, L756-1843. 

Dea. Oliver- Harmon, horn in L756, came to 
Painesville from Kut land, Vt, in 1815, where he 
resided several years, and then removed to Kirt- 
land. 

He married Mary Plumb, and was the father 
of two sons and two daughters. 

He was a Revolutionary patriot, one of the 

"Green Mountain Boys" of Vermont, serving in 

Capt. Williams' company of militia, in Col. 
Thomas Lee's regiment, commencing the 21st of 
October, 1781. 

He is remembered as a kind ami benevolent 
gentleman, who died Jan. 9, L848, In his eighty- 
seventh year, and is buried on the farm on which 

he lived. 

He was a pensioner. 

COL. ALEXANDER HARPER, 1744-1708. 

Alexander Harper was born in Middletown, 
Connecticut in L744. in the year L770 he took 
a patent of a large trad of land and moved to 
Harpersfield, Delaware County, in the state of 
New fork. 

In 1777 he received a captain'a commission 

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in a regiment <»r rangers commanded by CoL 
John Barper, the regiment having been raised 
by the direction <>f Gov. Clinton. Be was after* 

wards promoted l<> the rank of colonel, and served 

with distinction In the War of the Revolution. 
< Mi June 28, L798 he removed with ids Family 

to what is now I larperstield, Aslilalmla County, 
Ohio, and settled there, dying on the tenth of 
September of the same year. This section of the 
Country was then a wilderness, and Col. Harper 

gave the township of Barpersfleld the name 

w hi.h it has since horne. 

It is said that soon alter Landing he placed 

his stall' in the ground ami dedicated a portion 

of i he land as a cemetery, and he himself was the 
first to l»c bnried there; he being the first white 

person buried in the Western Reserve, whose 
grave can he Identified. An appropriate monu- 
ment bearing an inscription with the name and 

• late of birtfa and death, and recounting the \ir 
dies of (he pioneer ami patriot still marks the 
spot. This cenieterv is on the county line at 
I nionville Tillage. 

A biography of this distinguished citizen ami 

some of his lirsl descendants ma\ he found in 
an Interesting history Of I larperstield, written by 
Mrs. .Malvinn Sherwood, dedicated to the lion. 
Blisha Whittlesey, and recorded in the records 
of the Aslilalmla llistorieal and Philosophical 

Society by the celebrated penman, the late Piatt 

R. Spencer. 

SAMUEL BAYDEN, L749-1888. 

Samuel I lay den, a Revolut ionary soldier from 
Connecticut, enlisted at < iosheu. in 1T7."». He 

was a sergeant under Oapt Sedgewick ami OoL 

Binman fOP nine months' service, lie was also 

with Oapt Daniel Benedict's company, Lieut. 



Col. John Mead's regiment, marched Aug. L2, 

177<>, wms ;ii the battle of Ticonderoga. 

Be was ;i resident <»r Winstead, Litchfield <'<»., 
Conn., later of Concord, Lake <'<>., Ohio. 

Se 'li^i in is: is, nearly ninety yean <»r age, 
and is buried ;>< ( Soncord ( 'enter. 

I [e received ;i pension. 

AM ASA mill, L768-1847. 

A Boldier In the Revolutionary \\';u- was 
Amasa Bill, born ;ii Stillwater, NVw fork, In Oc- 
tober L768. Be enlisted from Bpencertown, N. 
v. in March L780, for nine months, In Oapt. 
Walter Vrooman's company, Col. John Barper's 
regiment 

Be \\;is with his regimenl In the battle <»f 
Cherry Valley. 

Be removed to Ohio in the winter of L809-10, 
settling in Madison. The exact date of his death 
is n<>t known, but iiis will w;is probated Oct. L8, 
is 17. 

I le w as bnried in I he cemetery Dear "Turner's 
( Corners" In Madison. 

I [e received ;i pension. 

SIMEON BODGES, 1768-1888. 

Simeon Bodges was born in Massachusetts In 
1768, and died in Mentor, Ohio, June L2, 1888. 

During the Revolutionary War, when a mere 
youth, he went with Iiis ancle Capt. Isaac Bodges, 
in Col. John Daggett's regiment, from Norton, 
Mass. to Tiverton, Rhode island and return, <>n 
;ui alarm call, making In all ri^hi days. 

Ilr made several trips i<> "New Connecticut" 
.is ;i traveling merchant, purchasing a tract <»f 
land in Newbury, Geauga <'<».. upon which liin 
s«m Samuel settled In 1819 or L820, .- 1 1 m I about 
isl'l' Simeon Bodges settled In Mentor, where he 
spent i he remainder of Iiis life. 

1 1<- lies in [Mentor t Jemeten 



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JOEL HOLCOMB, 17G0-1847. 

Joel Holcomb was born in Granby, Hartford Co; 
Conn., in 1760. 

He was of English descent, and at the age of 
eighteen years enlisted for eight months in the 
Revolutionary War. He served in the regular 
Connecticut Line under Col. Samuel Wylly from 
Apr. 26 to Dec. 31, 1778. 

He married Sarah Warner and moved into 
Massachusetts, remaining there a short time; 
then to Onondaga Co., N. Y. where their five 
children grew up, and the oldest daughter, Sally, 
married Elisha Patch. Seymour, Fanny, Nancy 
and Marcus completed the family. 

In 1820 Joel Holcomb and Elisha Patch, with 
their families, made the journey to Ohio, driv- 
ing an ox team, the wagon containing their goods, 
and the young girls Fanny and Nancy walking 
nearly all the way. 

Securing a heavily timbered farm in Leroy, 
Lake Co., Ohio, they went to work to make a 
home. All the privations of the early settler 
were theirs. Seymour died young, Fanny mar- 
ried James Wright, Nancy married Abel Wash- 
burn, and with the failing health of the father. 
who died in 1847, young Marcus became the head 
Of the family. 

Feb. 27, L883 he married Loviaa Brooks. 
daughter of David Brooks, of Madison, to whom 

were born three children who survive him; D. 
M. Holcomb of Madison, .Mrs. D. L. Palmer of 

Painesville, and l>. EL Holcomb of Perry. 

Joel Holcomb and his wife Sarah are buried 

in the Paine Hollow Cemetery in Leroy. 

A.8AHEL HOLLISTER, L768-1889. 

Asahel Hollister served in the Revolutionary 
War from Conn, in Capt. Blijafa Wright's com* 

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pany, Col. Koger Enos' regiment, stationed on the 
Hudson river, a l West Poinl in 1778. 

In the Painesville Republican of Feb. 28, 1839 
is the following notice of his death : 

"Died in Kirtland, Ohio Feb. 12, 183!), Mr. 
Asahel Hollister, aged 7*"» years, formerly from 
Glastonbury, Conn., a revolutionary pensioner. 
Mr. Hollister made an early profession of reli- 
gion, and joined the M. B. Church with which he 
remained for nearly twenty years, hut left tlnni 
ami joined the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) 
a bunt six years si nee, and died in the full faith 
of thai doctrine. He has left a large and re- 
Bpectable circle of relatives and friends to mourn 
the l«»ss of one who was a pattern of piety and 
< lnistian benevolence." 

A resident of Kirtland since 1834 thinks he 
was l)ii i-ied in Waite Hill Cemetery. 

THOMAS HUNTOON, 1753-1831. 

Thomas Huntoon enlisted in Capt. Tilton's 
company, June 12, 1775 under Col. Enoch Poor, 
later in Capt. John Calfe's company, in Col. 
T. liartlett's regiment of New Hampshire troops. 

lie was a resident of Sunapee, New Hamp- 
shire, and removing to Ohio became an early set- 
tler of Concord, Ohio. 

He died Jan. 2, 1831 aged seventy-eight, and 
is buried in the Huntoon Cemetery in Concord, 
Lake Co., Ohio. 

BENAIAH JONES, 1755-1839. 

Benaiab Jones Jr., <>f Hebron, Conn., was 
born Aug. 12, 177."). He served <»n Washington's 
body guard during the Revoutionary War. 

Feb. 7, L781, he married Jemima skinner, of 
Hebron, who was born in L758, and who also did 
heroic work during the Revolution. 

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In lTsii they removed to Massachusetts, com- 
ing to Ohio in Sept., 1808, making their home in 
Painesville. 

Mrs. Jones died in 1820, Benaiah Jones Lived 

until Aug. 19, 1839, aged eighty-four years. He 
spent his last days with a son in Jonesville, Mich. 
A monument in the Mentor Avenue Cemetery 
bears the names of Jemima Skinner Jones, Be- 
naiali Jones, Llkanah Jones. "Soldiers of the Rev- 
olution." 

ELKANAH JONES, 1761-1849. 

Elkanah Jones was born in Hebron, Conn. 
Apr. 28, 1761. 

He enlisted in the War of the Revolution in 
the fall of 177C>, for three months, under Capt. 
Elijah Wright, and Col. Roger Enos. 

In July and August of 1777 he was with rapt. 
John Skinner, and Col. Robert Lattimore. 
Again, in 1779, he was with Lieut. Noah Day for 
two months. 

Enlisted again in May L781, for six months, 
with Lieut. Josiah Uurnham, Col. Win. Ledyard's 
regiment, all service from Connecticut. 

After the war he lived successively at Hebron, 
Conn., Newburg, X. V., Middleford, Mass., Ham- 
ilton and Norwich, X. J., and later in Painesville, 

Ohio, where he died in L849. Be never married, 

and spent his lasi veins with the family of Jona- 
than Goldsmith. He received a pension from the 

government and lies in the cemetery west of 
Painesville known as the Blish or Nye Cemetery. 

BBENEZER JOY, L764-1837(?) 

Born in Killingly, Conn., in 17»>1. Lhetiezer 

Joy enlisted in the Revolutionary War at the age 

of fourteen. 

Be served four enlistments, dating Dec. 177S, 

May 177!>, July 17SII. March I7S1 ; length of ser- 



vice twenty-two months, under Captains Nichols, 
Houton, Abel Stevens, and Jonathan Benjamin; 
and Colonels McClellan, Bartlett, Nichols and 

Wait of ( 'onnecticut. 

He was one of the early settlers of Perry 
township, owning a farm on the River road, near 

the west Methodist church. 

His name appears among the town officers 
as early as L819. Oldest inhabitants remember 
his death in Perry, hut we have not been able to 
get the exact date <>r place <>f burial. He had 
no children and received a pension. 

Bbenezer Joy and wife were among the 
charter members of the Church of Christ organ- 
ized at Perry in August L829 by Elder Sidney 
Rigdon. 

ABEL KIMBALL, 1762-1841. 

Abel Kimball was horn in Boxford, .Mass., 
Oct. 10, i7<;l\ 

With his father's family he, when a child, 

removed i<- Rindge, New Hampshire, from which 

place lie enlisted in the War of the Revolut ion in 
Col. Moonev's regiment, also in Col. Enoch Hale's 
regiment, and served therein until Feb. L780. He 
was also an ensign, and afterwards a Captain 
in the militia. He received a pension in 1S32. 

Be married Mary Parker, in New Hampshire, 
and then resided a short time in Vermont, hut 
soon returned to Rindge, where he lived until 

L809, then he removed to Jeffrey, X. II., living 

there until L811, when he with his brother Lem- 
uel came to < >hio. 

Upon the death of his wife he married Abigail 
Cunningham. Be had no children. 

He died March i, L841, ami is buried in the 
village cemetery in Madison, Ohio. 

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PETER MARKELL, 1765-1837. 

Peter .Markell was born March 24, 1765. He 
enlisted from Palatine, Montgomery Count. v, 
New York, in April 1781, at the age of sixteen, 
and was discharged in November 1782. He parti- 
cipated in the battle of Johnstown, N. Y. under 
Captain Cook and Colonel Clock. He died May 
25, 1837, aged seventy-two years and was buried 
at Kirtland, Lake County, Ohio. 

1 December 9, 1792, he married Elizabeth Koch 
Their children were John, Benjamin, James, 
Margarette, Betsey (Mrs. Banter), Peter. Nich- 
olas, Mary, Fanny and Nancy who married Ezra 
Morgan of Geneva, Ohio, where their descendants 
still reside. The children are all dead; the hist 
one, . lames Markell of Mentor, Ohio, living until 
April L900. There are, in Kirtland, two children 
who are the great, great, great grandchildren of 
this Revolutionary soldier. 

Trier Markell was one of the pioneers of Kirt- 
land, coming with his family in 1816, bringing 
with him some of the finest horses that had i>\i'\- 
been in this part of the country. In his later 
years he became an invalid, caused by privations 
and exposure while in the army. 

II is granddaughter, Mrs. Ilenry Booth, re- 
members him as a fine looking man, very kind 
and gentle with the children. She has in her 
possession an old-fashioned arm-chair, that he 
brought to Ohio with him, which she keeps as a 
souvenir. She remembers stories he used to tell 

her. one of which follows : 

"At one time when his people were Staying 
in a fort to be safe from the I ndians, he was plow 
ing in a field not far away. He had been advised 
not to leave the Fori as Indians were thought 
to he near. After plowing for some time, he be- 
came aware that there wore Indians about the 
field. 

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"He dared not stop but kept at his work, 
though every time lie came near the entrance to 
the held, he would stop and adjust the harness. 
The third time when he stopped he hastily un- 
hitched from the plow, sprang upon one of the 
horses, and escaped to the fort closely pursued 
by the Indians.^ J l 

A young boy named Henry, a brother of Peter 
Markell, at the time of a battle between the 
Americans and British, went to the top of a hill 
that he might see the battle, and was lost; no 
trace of him has ever been found. His mother 
mourned bo bitterly for her child, whose fate 
was clothed in mystery, that she lost her reason, 
t is said she spoke no word for a year or more. 
-Mis. Peter Markell lived to receive a widow's 
pension. 

ISAAC MARTIN, 1757-1832. 

Isaac .Mail in, born in 1757, died Nov. 6, 1832, 
;it the age of seventy-five, and was buried in the 
•Middle Ridge Cemetery in Madison, Lake 
County, Ohio. 

He enlisted early in the Revolutionary War 
in the Connecticut Troops. He served in the 
first regimenl of Gen. Wooster, in the ninth com- 
pany under Qapt. .lames Arnold, on the first call 
for troops. 

The regiment marched for the protection of 
New York, and later engaged in the affairs of 
Lake George and Lake Ghamplain. 

He received a pension. 

Isaac MESSENGER, 1746-1839. 

"Isaac Messenger, ;i soldier of the Revolu- 
tion, died ie Concord, Ohio, on the 8th day of 
May L839 in the 94th year of his age." 

He served in Cap't. Amasa Hill's company, 

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Col. Roger Enos' regiment, arriving in camp Julv 
4, 1778. 

I [e \v;is at West Point and assisted in the con- 
struction of the lirst fortifications there, under 
the command of Washington, who was personally 
present a portion of I he time, lie had six brothers 
in the Revolutionary War, three of whom were at 
the hat tie of Bunker Hill. One of them, Reuben, 
was wounded at that time, but all survived the 
war. 

Isaac .Messenger's wife, whose maiden name 
was Anna Ward, and whose father was a Welsh 
emigrant to Connecticut, had three brothers who 
died in the Kevolutionary Army. 

Although born in Connecticut, Isaac Mes- 
senger's ancestors were French, having settled 
in Canada early in the seventeenth century. 

.Mr. and Mrs. Messenger, with their grandSOU 

Joseph Tut tie, arrived in Concord, near Little 
Mountain March 1, 1S17. their son Ashhel Mee 
senger coming in L815 Among their descendants 

are Eugene Adams and Walter B. Tuttle <»f Con 

cord. Rev. Warren I>. Hendrix, late of Mentor. 

and Warren and George l loose of Waite Hill. 

Wade Adams, who died at Fori Thomas, Ky.. 
Sept. 8, 1898, a soldier of the Spanish War was a 
great grandson of this Revolutionary soldier. 

Isaac Messenger is buried ;it Concord Center, 
and his widow, who died in I860 at the age of 

KM years, lies beside him. 

PHINEAS MIXER, L766-1821. 

rhiueas Mixer Sr., from Norwich, Mass., ar- 
rived in M adison, Ohio Jan. 24, L806. lie settled 
on a six hundred acre farm, on the shores of Lake 
Brie, near Madison I lock. 

in 1811 he removed to Onionville and kepi 
tavern in a log house, where now stands the house 



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built by Phineas Mixer, Jr., and owned by bis 
great, grandchildren, Don J. Barnes and Eliza 
Dorcas Pope. 

His wife was Abigail Fobes of .Mass. and their 
family consisted <»r live children, two sons and 
three daughters. 

It is said of him thai, "he was a man of ster- 
ling qualities, and active in promoting local im 
provements." in the Revolutionary War he was 
in the service of Massachusetts, enlisting Sept. 
20, 1777 in Gapt. Benjamin Bonney's company ; 
discharged ( ><t. 14, 1777. 

He died Nov. ,'i, 1821, aged sixty-five years and 
nine m<mt lis, and is buried in Unionville, Ohio. 

JOHN MOORE, Third, 17o2-1843. 

John Moore was horn in Maryland, in 1752. 
He was in the service of the United States about 
seven years as a Revolutionary soldier, and three 
years in the Indian War. 

lie enlisted June 1, 1777 from Schenectady, 
N. Y. in the 8th company, 3rd regiment, New 
York Line with ('apt. Leonard Hlucher and Col. 
Peter Gansevoort. Enlisted again June 1, 1782 
in the 1st regimenl under Col. Goose Van 
Bchaick ; was discharged at New Windsor, near 
West Point. 

He married Leah Groome, and raised six 
children, his son Isaac serving in the War of 
1S1 2. 

Be came to Ohio in 1810, settling in K inland, 
bis family coming in 1811. Mrs. Moore died soon 
after, and was buried on one of the highest I »« tints 
of Kirt land township. 

John Moore had some very narrow escapes 
from the Indians, the tomahawk of one grazing 
his ear, clipping <>IV the top, the scar of which 
he always carried. He is remembered as a large, 

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handsome man, the color-bearer of bid regiment, 
and a great story-teller. 

Se died .March !*, L843, and was bailed in 
Chester, where he spent the last years of his 
life. 

Be was a pensioner. 

THOMAS MORLEY, L758-1844. 

Thomas Morley of (ilastonbury, Conn., died 
in Kirt land, Ohio, Sept. 1, 1844, aged eighty-six 
years, and Lies in Kirtland Cemetery. 

During the Revolutionary War he served his 
country from Connecticut, enlisting in Jan. 177<>, 
under Capt Wells and Col. Cook, serving until 
Jan. 1777. 

Again in Aug. 1777 he entered the same regi- 
ment for two months, under Capt. Bidwell; 
again, in July 177!*, for two months. 

He was in the battle of Stillwater. 

Mr. Morley was one of the early settlers of 
Kirtland township. Arriving July 6, 1815 he be- 
gan the settlement of bis farm. 

At the house of Thomas Morley, in L818, was 
organized the tirst religious society in Kirtland. 
In L824 this society erected its tirst church build- 
ing, which was made <»f logs and occupied the 

site of the present Presbyterian church. Mrs. 
Morley died in L84& 

BZEKIEL MORLEY, L759-1852. 

Kzekid Morley was lx.ru in < Jlastoubury, 
Conn., in 1769. Enlisted Jan. 10. 1777 t<> serve 
three years in the Kevolntionary War, in Capt 
Joseph Williams' company, known as the 1st 
Company, • » i« 1 Muss, regt, Continental Line, com- 
manded by Ool. John (ireaton; was discharged 

• Ian. 1<», 17SII. 

lie removed to ohio from Genesee Oo., New 
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York, in L832, was placed <»n ili«' pension poll 
May 2, L833, which after his death was trans* 
ferred to hig widow. 1 1 « - < I i < -« l in Chester, Geauga 
Co., A u«^. (I, lsr>L\ lacking nine days of being 
ninety-three years old. 

I [e assisted in erecl ing t he first Log cabin that 

was buill in ( 'loveland. 

Kzokiol Morley was one of (he original sur- 

vcv(irs or die Western Reserve Landing at Con- 
neaul ('reek, July I, L796. "After a perilous 
journey by land and water. They christened 
the place Fori independence, and celebrated the 

day wit 1 1 such demonstrations <>r patriotism as 

they were a I ile to invent. They gave the National 
Salute with their fowling pieces, drank then 

t«»;ists with water from Lake Brie, and blessed 

the laud which they had helped to deliver from 
British oppression." lie is buried in Kirtland, 
Ohio. 

BENJAMIN MORSE, L756-1813. 

"Maj. Benj. Morse, Esq., horn Nov. 7. L£65, 
died Feb. 6, L813, age 59. 
To every good he sought his aid to lend. 
His country's, virtue's ami religion's friend, 

The morn shall come, this precious dust shall 

rise, 

And BOngS immortal fill the immortal skies."' 

Thus reads the stone which marks his burial 
place in the old cemetery at Dnionville. 

"Benjamin .Morse served in the Revolut ionary 
War in the third regiment, with Col. Israel Put- 
nam. in Capt. Obadiah Johnson's fifth company, 
on the first call for troops; was at Bunker Hill, 
also with the Quebec expedition." Conn, in the 
Rev. 

Be married a sister of Col. Alexander Earner, 
and is supposed to he one of the party that came 
with him in L798. 



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,io\ AS NK'IloLS, L758-1843. 

Jonas Nichols, a resident of Vermont, enlisted 
in Colonel William Malcolm's regiment, iu the 
New Fork Line, in the Revolutionary War. 

He removed Prom Vermont to New York, ami 

spent Ins last years with his son Deacon Phineas 
Nichols of Perry, Lake Co., <). 
He lies in Perry Cemetery. 

STEPHEN NORWOOD, L762-1842. 

Stephen Norwood, of Massachusetts, was 
horn in L762, and died in Perry, Lake Co., ()., 

August l, L842, aged eighty years, 

lie is buried in Perry, in the cemetery on 
the South Ridge, near the little Church. 

He served in the Revolutionary War for eight 
months, iu Boston. 

OAPT. EDWARD PAINE, L746-1841. 

Edward Paine was horn at Bolton, Conn., 
in 17 16. lie entered the Revolutionary service a - 
an ensign in a regiment of t Connecticut militia. 

In June 1 T 7 C» he became first lieutenant in 

Captain Brig's company ami was a member of 

thai company at the time of its retreat from New 

York in White Plains. 

In 1777 he was commissioned lieutenant of 

the Fifth company of the Alarm List in the L9th 
regiment of Conn, militia, and later in 1777 was 
made captain of the same company and served as 
such nut il I he close of the war. 

lie was Later made Brigadier General of the 

milit ia in New Fork state. 

In I7!»'.t Edward Paine came to Painesville, 

from Annua, N. Y. and purchased B thousand 

acres of [and. The following year he returned 
with his wife Rebecca White Paine ami eight 

children. 



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In August LfijOO he wbm chosen one <>f the com- 
mittee i«» organize Trumbull comity Into eight 
townships, of which township 11, range 8, bears 
Ins Dame to I be present I hue. 

In October L800 lie was elected to the Terri- 
torial Legislature, receiving thirty-eight out of 
forty i \\<> rotes east, and becoming the ftrst repre- 
sentative from I Ik' Western L'eservo. 

lii I soi or 'i he was commissioned by Gov. 
St. Clair t<» lay out :i state road from Painesville 
to < Shillicol he. 

II. • died at Painesville, Ohio, Aug. 28, L841, 
ami is now bnried beneath the monument erected 
to Mis memory. 

ELEAZER PAINE, lit; l 1804. 

Eleazer Paine was the son of Stephen Paine, 
5th, and was horn at East Windsor, Conn., in 
L764. Although young at the time, he saw active 
service in the Revolutionary War, enlisting as a 
drummer hoy in Captain lien's company, 2nd 
Connecticut regiment, commanded hv Colonel 
Zebulon Butler. 

He enlisted July 5, 1780, lor six months, and 

was discharged Dec. '•». L780. 

In 1800 he came to Painesville with his mule 

Qen. Edward Paine, but returned to Connecticut 
in the tall. In L803 he moved his family to 
Painesville, and with Abraham Skinner laid out 

the town of New .Market, which was the county 

seat of ( teauga < Jo. nut il L812. 

.Mr. Paine opened a supply store at New Mar- 
ket, inn lived only a year after. 

Be died Feb. L0, L804, Leaving a wife, Aurel 
Ellsworth Paine, and six children. Me lies in 
t he old cemetery in Painesville. 

AMAZIAH PARES, L768 L838. 

Amaziafa Parks, horn in Sterling, Windham 

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Co.. ( '(inn., in 1758, served live enlistments in the 
Connecticut troops during the Revolutionary 
War. 

He enlisted Sept. I, 177*5, under Capt. Jona- 
than Dixon and Col. Douglas. Again in 1777 
under the same officers. In March 1780 with 
Capt. Jonathan Thompson. In the fall of 1780 
under Capt. Titus Bailey, and again in Sept. 1781 
with Capt. Bennett and Col. Bailey. He was in 
the battle of White Plains. 

In Feb. 1798 he married Sabra Barrett at 
A 1 ford, Mass. and removed to Mendon, Monroe 
county, New York, where they resided until 1818, 
when they removed to Perry, O., living on a farm, 
where the River Road joins the South Ridge. 

He died Nov. 4, 1838, and was buried in the 
cemetery at West Perry, but was later placed in 
Evergreen cemetery in Painesville. He received 
a pension. 

BENJAMIN PITCHEK, L767-1849. 

Benjamin Pitcher served in the third regi- 
ment, Duchess County Militia dming the year 
1782, in the Revolutionary War, in New York 
State. 

This regiment was commanded by Col. John 

Field. 

Mi-. Pitcher died in EGrtland, and is buried in 

lOast Kiii land, in what is called Angel Cemetery. 

A brother of Benjamin Pitcher served in the 

war of L812 both as captain and colonel. 

JOHN REYNOLDS, 1760-1840. 

John Reynolds was horn in Norwich, Con- 
necticut, March L6, 17<;<>, and died in Mentor, 

Lake Co., Ohio, .March :?, 1 S 40. 

Be enlisted in the War of the Revolution from 
Norwich, was in the Lexington Alarm, also in 

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Bigelow's company of artillery; March 7, 1777, 
was a musician in the fourth regiment, Connecti- 
cut Line. 

He was also a sergeant in Capt. Horton's 
company. He received a pension with the pay of 
sergeant, under the Act of 1818. 

He is buried in Mentor, at Little Mountain. 

SAMUEL ROGERS, 1766-1850. 

Col. Samuel Rogers was born in Wendall, N. 
H., Nov. 13, 1766 and died in Concord, Lake Co., 
Ohio, Sept. 9, 1850. He was in the Revolution- 
ary War for New Hampshire in the company of 
Capt. Samuel Richards, regiment of Col. Stark, 
for which he received a pension. He was married 
twice, first to Sally Pike, afterward to Rhoda 
Harvey. 

He was also in the War of 1812, in which he 
re< eived a Lieutenant's commission, but was al- 
ways known as Col. Rogers, probably receiving 
that title from the militia. 

He held the office of Justice of the Peace in » 
New Hampshire, coming to Ohio in 1831, and is 
buried in Concord cemetery, near Fay's mills. 

ISAAC ROSA, 1767-1841. 

Isaac Rosa served in the militia of New York 
under Col. Abraham Culyer, in the Revolution- 
ary War. 

He was born Aug. 27, 17C.7, and died Feb. 27, 
1841, aged eighty-two. lie is buried in Evergreen 
Cemetery in Painesville, Ohio. He married 
Agnes Storm, and was the father of Dr. Storm 
Rosa, one of Lake county's earliest physicians. 

ANSON SESSIONS, 1770-1827. 

This pioneer «»f the Western Reserve was born 
in Windham. Conn., April 16, 1770, and died in 

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Painesville, Ohio, In August l si>7. His father 
w;is m deacon <>r the Presbyterian church and a 
Bchool teacher. Anson Sessions, In 1770, left 
his native place and went t<> Cooperstown, N. 
Y. After the defeal of the annv of si. Hair In* 
volunteered for military service under Gen. 
Wayne, and was with him on the Btfaumee, Aug. 
21, L794, when the [ndians Buffered such an over- 
whelming defeat that they never after made seri- 
ous head against the whites in the north-west. 
After the treaty of Greenville, Ohio, he was or- 
dered with the army to the Cherokee country. 
Mason, the notorious leader of the banditti 

(hat infested the .Mississippi country, was killed 

by one of his own followers for the reward offered. 

His head was brought in while Sergeant Sessions 
was at Natchez. While at the south, Butler, his 

colonel, died, and by request of that officer, made 
just before his death, Sessions accompanied .Mrs. 

Butler and the children hack to Pittsburg, then 

Port Duquesne. 

Being a BOldier and a frontiersman, he was 

solicited by Aaron Burr to join his expedition, 
but suspecting its true character, he refused. 
Sessions was honorably discharged from the 
army after three years 1 service in the Indian 

wars, which on account of the part taken in theni 

by Great Britain, were stated by Gen. Harrison 

in his speech at Port Meigs, to be a cent inuation 
of the War of the Revolut ion. 

Por his services in the army a wan-nut for U'»<> 

acres of land was issued to his widow in L851. 

it was obtained chiefly on the testimony of a Mr. 
Stevens of Blontville, who was also in the army 
and one of the very few, if not the last Burvivor. 
During all the fears of his service. Mr. Sessions 

used to like to Bay, he had "not slept under a 
Bhingle." 

Alter his discharge he returned to Coopers* 



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town, N. v., where Ik* lived three years; then 
started on horse-back, with a few hundred dol- 
lar! in coin, for Tennessee, i<» buy a farm. 

He stayed over oigh.1 ;it Buffalo, there being 
;ii thai place then two log cabins only, and fol- 
lowing the lake shore, arrived ;il I'ainesville in 

October 1800, the same year of the arrival of Gen. 
Paine and Judge John Walworth, lie was hos- 
pitably entertained by Walworth, and was in- 
duced by him to buy L80 acres of land, for four 
dollars an acre, now known as (lie I'ohes farm. 
He immediately buill a log cabin on the first 

hill near the river, cleared up most of the bottom 
land and a portion of the upland, and set out 

extensive fruit orchards. .Mr. William Pobes, 
who died in L860, told of eating peaches from this 

farm in L806. 

On the Kith of Dec, 1804, Anson Sessions 

married Asenath A. Pobes, a daughter of Lemuel 
Pobes, from Norwich, .Mass. 

A contracl with the Conn. Land Company was 

made Nov. L'l), L806, and signed by Altiaham 
Tappan and Anson Sessions in pursuance of 

which all that portion of tin- Western Reserve 
lying west of the Ouyahoga River, comprising 

over 800,000 acres, was conveyed. -Mr. Sessions 
was not a surveyor, hut was then a man in the 

prime of life, of greal bravery ami persever- 
ance in any business he undertook, making him 

a safe and trustworthy partner. This statement 

was made by Judge Tappan in the Cleveland Her- 
ald in L831. He also says that "Mr. Anson Ses- 
sions was large and well proportioned, and in Ids 
younger days decidedly good looking. He was 

a man of peculiar Strength, and was known and 
esteemed among the pioneers as very kind and be- 
nevolent." 

Mrs. Sessions survived him, witli four of their 
six children, named Norman, Anrel, Mariner, and 



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Horace. He was buried on his own farm, where 
his remains now rest. 

His name is inscribed on a monument in 
Evergreen Cemetery. 

PELEG SIMMONS, 1761-1854. 

Peleg Simmons of Middletown, Hartford 
county, Conn., was born June 3, 1761, married 
May 22, 1788, and died Oct. 1, 1854, living to be 
ninety- three years of age. 

He was buried on Willoughby Plains, Lake 
Co., Ohio. 

During the Revolutionary War he served his 
country From Connecticut as soldier on a war 
vessel, which was used to protect the coast. 



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ABRAHAM SKINNER 



OAPT. ABRAHAM SKINNER, 1755-1826. 

Capt. Abraham Skinner, descended, as family 
tradition relates, from an old English family, 
was born in Glastonbury, Conn., in the year 1 7f 5. 

About the time of the accession of Charles 
the Second to the British throne, the family emi- 
grated to America, feeling, in consequence of 
their having espoused the cause of Cromwell, 
aud held ollice under him, that a more congenial 
home might be found in this country. 

In the possession of this branch of the family, 
at the beginning of the past century, was a sword, 
which had been used by an ancestor in his service 
as an officer under Cromwell. This same sword 
again did valiant service at the time of the Salem 
Witchcraft Craze, for the descendants of this 
branch Of the Skinners boast, that it was one of 
their ancestors, who dared to lead a squad of de- 
termined men to rescue from the gallows a poor 
woman, condemned to death as a witch. 

Capt. Abraham Skinner, son of Abram Skin- 
ner and Phoebe Strong, was one of a family of 
ten children. Two of his sisters married pio- 
neers of the Western Reserve. 

Phoebe was the wife of Benjamin Blish, who 
settled in Mentor, and Jemima married Benaiah 
Jones, from whom the Goldsmith family are de- 
scendants. From another sister is descended the 
well known authoress, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 

Of the early life of Abraham Skinner, we 
know but little. In the War of the Revolution, 
his military record shows that he served from the 
town of Bast Windsor, among the men who 
marched from the Connecticut towns, for the re- 
lief of Boston in the Lexington Alarm of April 
177."), in ('apt. Amasa Looinis' Company. Again, 
enlisted April 24, 1 77S, in Capt. Harrison's com- 
pany, serred eight months, and was Commissary 

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of Prisoners, in the Fourth Regiment, Connecti- 
cut Line, <\>l. John Durke, commanding. 

In 1788 he was married to Mary Avers, re- 
sided for a time iu Mulberry, Conn., and then 
moved to East Windsor. In 17!m;, as the agent of 
an association, he made a trip to England and 
ret timing brought with him three blooded horses, 
by name "Creeper," "King William" and "All 
Fours." Prom these have come some of the 
finest horses of Virginia and New England. 

In 1798, Capt. Skinner in company with Gen. 
Edward Paine, Came to the Western Keserveand 
made large purchases of land in Painesville and 
elsewhere on the Reserve. 

In Painesville in conjunction with Col. 
Eleazer Paine he bought the entire tract No. 4, 
embracing about 3,240 acres. 

Capt. Skinner returned to Conn., remaining 
in East Hartford until 18o:{, when he again vis- 
ited his Ohio lands in company with the family 
of Col. Paine. They brought with them horses 
and cat lie. farming implements and young fruit 
trees. They contracted for the clearing of lands, 

and ltnilt log cabins t<> shelter the Paine family, 
and one to he ready for the Skinner family when 

they should come 

Col. Paine and Capt. Skinner at this time, to- 
gether platted out a town, embracing the site of 

their improvements, and located on the west side 
of Grand river about two and a half miles from 

its month. If uch on the order of a New England 

t<»\\ it. this plot included a park or public Square, 
and at the river landing a Log warehouse was 
circled. This town was called "New Market" 
from the old Indian name "NemCHC \\<t<iir." 

Capt. skinner again returned to Connecticut, 

and in .March L805 started with his family, con- 
sisting of his wife, two daughters, three sons, 

and tw<> hired men. for their new home in the 



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wilderness. Their journey took them over the 
accustomed route, t h rough t lie state of New York 
and as far as Buffalo. Thence by sleighs they 
came over the ice of the frozen lake. On the last 
day, between Ashtabula and Madison a team 
driven by one of the hired men broke through 
the ice, soon the horse ridden by the younger 
daughter, Paulina, (afterward wife of Nathan 
Perry, and mother of -Mis. H. B. Payne of Cleve- 
land) broke through and was extricated with 
some difficulty. 

They spent that uighl at .Madison, and by the 
next day, the ice which had borne them up so well 
was unsafe, and they journeyed on by land to 
their new home, reaching it that same day. 

( 'apt. Skinner was active in the interest of the 
new place, and other settlers shortly came in, 
among them the fa mi lies of Joseph Pepoon, Benj. 
Blish and Benaiah Jones. 

lie made strong efforts to have the <« unity 
seat located at "New .Market," and the first trial 
was held in Skinner's barn. Soon a two story 
court house, built of black walnut logs, was com- 
pleted by Capt. Skinner, where for several years, 
law and justice were meted out. At that time 
the whole of Cuyahoga, Lake and Ashtabula 
counties were included in the limits of Geauga 
county. 

The first frame house of the new town was 
now built for the family of Capt, Skinner. Wiv^' 
lawyers, judges, members of Congress, and the 

early governors, met with the free hospitality of 

these old pioneer days. 

This house is still in repair and occupied by 
a great-grandson of its original owner. 

In L810 Geauga county was diminished by 
two-thirds of its former territory, and in 1812 
the county seat was removed to Chardon. 

That same year ('apt. Skinner laid out the 



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village of Fairport, and was one of the most effi- 
cient men in getting appropriations for its 
harbor. 

It is said of him, that being a man of Large 
means, and bis farm always well stocked, he was 
thus enabled to be a source of some help to the 
poorer set i lers, that "polite to every body and 
generous to the needy and suffering everywhere, 
('apt. Skinner occupied a prominent place 
among the people of his day." 

A notice of his death on Jan. 14, 1826 at the 
age of seventy-one may be found printed in an 
early copy of the Painesville Telegraph of Jan. 
21, is2<;. " 

lie was buried with Masonic honors. 

In Capt. Skinner's direct line, the name has 
not been perpetuated, only the descendants of liis 
daughters, Airs. .Mary S. Iline, and Mrs. Paulina 
Perry being now alive. Of his children's child- 
ren but one is now living, Mr. Augustus nine, 
formerly of this place, now residing in Los 
Angeles, California. 

SAMUEL BMEAD, 1748-1842. 

Samuel Bmead of Deerfield, Mass., was born 

• Ian. 18, L748, ami died in Madison. Ohio. Oct 

26, L842, aged nearly ninety-four years. 

He is buried in the cemetery at Madison vil- 
lage 

He enlisted from Deerfield in Apr. L775, to 
serve in the Revolutionary War, as private under 

Capt. Joseph Lock. Another enlistment in Dec. 

177.~> under Oapt Leonard and Col, Woodbridge, 

Again in Aug. 177<">, for three months with 
< 'apt. Samuel Taylor. 

In August, 1777, he was Bergeanl under ('apt. 
Sheldon. 

1 [e received a pension. 

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MARAUCOIE VAN ORDEN SPERRY, 1754- 
1845. 

Bfarauchie Van Orden Sperry seems entitled 
to a record among the brave ones of the Revolu- 
tion. 

She was horn in Holland in L754, daughter 
of Pieter Van Orden, came to New York in 
childhood, was driven from the city by Lord 
Howe's Forces, married Lieut. Blizah Sperry in 
April 17711, died in Kirtland, Ohio, May 13, 1845, 
and is buried in the "Angel" burial ground. 

Mi t father and two brothers were killed in 
the service, her mother died from the poisoning 
of i heir well by the British, who also burned 
their home and confiscated their estate. 

She was a protege of General and Mrs. Wash- 
ington; was presenl at the capture of Bur- 
goyne, and "assisted the Buffering Americans on 
thai memorable day." 

The aid rendered to this publication by one 
of her descendants is done in her memory. 

Her husband, Elijah Sperry (b. Sept 8, 1751, 
d. Sept. 4, 1818), was Corporal, Sergeant, and 
finally Lieutenant in Oapt. < >sborn's company of 
Artificers, Col. Baldwin's Conn. Regiment. He 
was in the battles of Brandywine, Ciennantown, 
.Monmouth, etc., and helped to make the chain 
obstructions in the Hudson River at West Point : 
he was a pensioner. 
Contributed by her grand- sofl Barley Barnes. 



JOSHUA SWEET, L764-1840. 

According to the .Massachusetts Records, 

"Joshua Sweet of I >eerliehl received a bounty for 

enlisting into the Continental army for a term 
of three years, in L781, at which time he was 
seventeen years of age, and is credited with ser- 

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vice in (apt. Smart's Co., Third regiment, in 
July 17S1." 

He enlisted March 23, 1781, and served until 
Dec. 22, 1 783, a part of the time under Captains 
Lee and Thos. Hunt, with Lieut. Col. William 
Hull. 

In an obituary notice of Joshua Sweet in 
"The Telegraph" of May 7, 1840 is this : 

"Thus has fallen a sturdy oak of the Revolu- 
tion, amidst the storms and tumults of war, he 
stood foremost in the ranks, and in the defense 
of Liberty, a principle which he could duly value 
and appreciate, knowing full well its primitive 
cost." 

In the village cemetery in Madison his grave 
is marked as follows : 

Memorial of Joshua Sweet, a Revolutionary 
soldier, who died 2nd May 1840, aged 76 years. 

CALEB SWEET, 1828. 

Caleb Sweet came from the state of New York 
to Ohio in an early day, and was a resident of 
North Perry. While in New York he served in 
the Fourth regiment, Albany County Militia, in 
the Revolutionary War. 

In 1817 he was an officer in Perry township, 
was justice of the peace until his death, which 
came very suddenly on March 3, 1828. He was 
buried on liis farm in Perrv, now owned by James 
L. Parml y. 

JOHN SMITH, 1752-1836 (?) 

•In November 1800, John Sin i Hi came to 
Fftinesville with his family. They landed on the 

beack at the month <»f Grand river, about the mid- 
dle <»f the month. With the winter Of a new 
country already commenced, without a home or 

provisions, they would have Buffered had it not 

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been for those already accustomed to pioneer 
life. They remained at the house of Judge Wal- 
worth, until their lo<; house was built on the hill 
Leading to the Arch Bridge east of Seth Mar- 
shall." 

John Smith served in the Mass. Continentals, 
receiving B pension in ISIS, at the age of sixty- 
six. His name appears on the poll books of 
Painesville township, each year until 1836, when 
he would have been 84 yean of aj;e, and it is sup- 
posed he died, though his burial place is not 
known. In 1803 he purchased a farm of 150 acres 
on the lake shore, now owned by the Fairport 
Land Co. jusi west of Shorelands, said to be the 
place Gen. Paine built his first house in Ohio. 

I lr held town offices. 

BAETHOLOMEW, YKOOMAN, 1761-1831). 

Bartholomew Vrooman, a soldier of the Rev- 
olutionary War, was born in Holland, in 1761. 

He enlisted from Schoharie, N. Y., in Ann. 
1776, for one year in Capt. Ephraim Vrooman'a 
company, ( 1 ol. Peter Vrooman's regiment. Again, 
in May 177S he enlisted for nine months under 
Capt. Pair and Col. Morgan, both of New York. 

In the Bpring of 177!> he joined the militia, 
and was employed as a guard to the inhabitants 

while they worked in the fields, and in August 

of thai year was captured by a party of British 

and Indians under Capt. Brant, conveyed to Mon- 
treal, and kept about a year. Afterwards he 
served in the militia under Capt. llaimr, various 
short tours and alarms l<> the end of the war. 
Be married Hannah .Man ire Feb. L5, L792, and 

lived iii Concord, Lake Co., Ohio, where he died 
her. S, 1S3!>, a<jed seventy-eight years, and lies 
in the Huntoon Cemetery in Concord. He re- 
ceived a pension. 

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JACOB TYLER, 1762-1847. 

Jacob Tyler was born in Branford, Conn., 
enlisted in the Revolutionary War from New 
Haven, Conn., in the spring of 1779 for three 
months, under Capt. Mix and Col. Sabin; again, 
in 1781, under Capt. Enoch Staples, for six 
months; and again in 1782, for six months, under 
same Captain; later was stationed on the coast 
as guard, serving as sergeant in Capt. Aaron 
Foot's company, in Col. Hooker's regiment of 
Connecticut militia. 

He applied for a pension in 1834 while re- 
siding in Broome, Schoharie County, N. Y. He 
married Abi Wheeler, Sept. 11, 1789 at Catskill, 
N. Y. He removed to Ohio about 1839, settling 
near Little Mountain. 

He died Feb. 19, 1847, and is buried in Mentor 
Cemetery. 

ASA TURNEY, 1759-1833. 

Asa Turney, of Madison, Ohio was a soldier 
in the Revolutionary War, under Gen. Arnold; 
was in the battle of Danbury, Conn., when thai 
t«»\\n was burned by the British. He enlisted 
when eighteen years old, and served throughout 
the war. 

Be was born in Fairfield, Conn., in 17."!), and 
emigrated i<» Ohio in the winter of L806, being 
fifty-three days on the journey, wiih an ox team, 
following a wild trail through the woods, as there 
were no roads or bridges. 

Be purchased one hundred acres of land on 

the SOUth ridge In .Madison, which still remains 

in the family. Be married Polly Downs, who 
died in L835. 

Asa Turney died Sept. 5, L888, and lies In the 
.Middle Ridge Cemetery in Madison. 

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WILLIAM WAITE, 1765-1844. 

William Waite of Waite Bill, Willoughby 
township, died Oct. 3, L844, aged seventy-nine 
years, and lies in Waite Hill Cemetery. 

During the Revolutionary War he served in 
the Connecticul Line, enlisting May 26, 1780, 
under Col. Win. Douglas. 

He married Spedy Perry, who died May 1<, 
1S3S, a-vd sixty-eighl years. 

EBENEZEK WILSON, 1745 



Ebenezer Wilson was born at Swansea, Mass- 
achusetts tthen Rhode Island) May L6, L745. En- 
listed in the War of the Revolution Dec. 8, 1« <o, 

to serve in an alarm in Rhode Island, in Oapt 

Roberl Crossman's company, Ool. George Wil- 
liams' regiment. . . 

He was twice married, and came to Ohio in 
1812, buying a large tract of laud iu Mentor, 
Lake Countv. It is said of bis son Samuel, who 
was stationed at Troy, New York, during the 
War of L812 thai he was the "Curie Sam from 
whom the Cnited States received that title, first 
as a joke, Imt "has been m popular parlance ever 

since." 

He lies in Mentor Cemetery. 

MARTIN WIRT, 1760-1815. 

Born in Germany and emigrating to this 
country at the age of seven years, Martin Wirl 
came at a time when the custom prevailed of sell- 
ing ,,,,! ih ( . passengers for payment of the passage 
money. Be Landed in Philadelphia, and was sold 
P 0r a term of nine years, bul at the end of seven 
years the purchaser died and Wirl was released. 
This occurred ahoul the time of the opening of 
the Revolutionary War. so he must have been 



close to fifteen when he enlisted as a teamster in 
the army. 

The only hattle he is said to have witnessed 
was that of Brandywine. 

At the close of the war he located on the 
Schuylkill river at Reading. He married Cath- 
erine Homan. They moved over the Allegheny 
mountains to Horseshoe Bottom, Fallowfield, 
township, on the Monongahela river, twenty-two 
miles above Pittsburg. Here they lived twenty 
eight years, four daughters and three sons being 
born to them. 

About 1806, two of his sons, Jacob and Sam 
nel, went out into the "Indian Country" to look 
for a home. 

They located some land in Hiram, Portage 
County, Ohio, and lived there during parts <>f 
three years. In 1808 the} r went back to the old 
home for their father. 

He came into Ohio with them and purchased 
a farm and mill on the Chagrin river, owned by 
David Abbott He was a man of quiet, unob- 
irusive mien, upright in all his dealings. 

He died in July L816, and was buried on a 
spur of the hill north of the river, in an old bury 
ing ground in Willoughby, Ohio. 

BZEKIEL WOODWORTH, 1759-1839. 

lOzekiel Woodworth was a soldier in the Rev 
olutionary War from .Massachusetts, enlisting 
from Hampden County, serving as a private in 
( Japtain < Iharles ( Jolton's company, Colonel John 
Greaton'B regiment, Mass. Line, from 1777 to 

1780 inclusive. 

lie received a pension under the Act of L818, 
which was later transferred to his widow. 

In the cemetery at Inionville a stone bears 
this inscript inn : 

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"In memory of Ezekiel Woodworth, a Revolu- 
tionary Soldier who died Feb. 27, 1839, aged 80 
years." 

JAMES WOODWORTH, 1766-1859. 

James Woodworth was born in Coventry, 
Conn., July 8, 1766, and died in Painesville, Nov. 
2, 1859, aged ninety-three years. 

He lies in Evergreen Cemetery. In the "Pub- 
lic Records of Connecticut" during the Revolu- 
tionary War, page 138 is this concerning James 
Woodworth, as verified by descendants. 

"This Assembly do establish James Wood- 
worth to be ensign of the fourth company 
or train band in the 12th regiment in this state." 
worth In In? Ensign of tho uf the fourth company 

lie will be remembered as the father of Har- 
vey Woodworth. 

WILLIAM \\ V.MAN, 1765-1842. 

Wm. Wyman Jr., was born at Northneld, 
Mass., June 16, 1765, and died in Perry, Ohio, 
March 6, L842. 

He was a soldier of the Revolution, enlisting 
from Putney, Vermont, in Jan. 1781, serving ten 
months as a private in the company commanded 
by Josiah Pish, in Col. Samuel Fletcher's regi- 
ment. The regiment was stationed al Castleton, 
Vt., ;iiid was commanded by Gen. Enos. In Nov- 
ember 17sl lie volunteered as a private in a com- 
pany commanded by Capt. William Qutchins, 
and' served again at the Fori in Castleton for two 
months, dining which time he participated in a 
skirmish with Tories and Indians in which en- 
gagement lie was wounded. 

On May 1, 1 7'.»«» lie was married to Malinda 
Katon, a daughter of Nathan Eaton, who was also 
a Revolutionary Soldier. 

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William Wyman Sr., married Margaret 
Holmes, of Scotland, who was left in the forests 
of Vermont with her three sons, the oldest thir- 
teen years of age, while her husband and two 
older sons, Henry and William served in the war. 

William Wyman Jr., spent most of his life in 
Vermont, following his sons Guy and Don to 
Perry, Ohio, where he and his widow are buried, 
she living until Oct. 16, 1865. 



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Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Geauga 
County, Ohio. 

Until 1840, Lake and Geauga Counties were 
one, under the name of Geauga, most of these Rev- 
olutionary Soldiers who were pensioners received 
their pension under the Act of 1832, while Lake 
Co. was a part of Geauga. 

The primary work of New Connecticut Chap- 
ter was locating Lake County's soldiers, but in 
so doing, we have located by townships the fol- 
lowing list for Geauga Co., hoping some one will 
be patriotic enough to make it a complete list, 
giving the military record of each, with dates of 
birth and death, and the place of burial. 

Alden, David. Mass Middlefield 

Alford, Benedict, d. 1S3S, a. S2 Troy 

Barnes, Moses, N. J Thompson 

Hradlev, Thaddeus, Ct., 1756-1840 Burton 

Benton, Xadok, X. J., d. 1835 Chardon 

Bridgman, Elisha, .Mass Ilnntsburg 

Carlton, Darius Bunteburg 

Carter, Jason Troy 

Carter, Jonas, Mass Parknuin 

Cheeseman, Isaac Bambden 

Church, Philemon, Ct Buntsburg 

(Mark, Ephraim,Ot Burton 

Olark, Isaac Ct Claridon 

Cleveland, Samuel, Mass Chardon 

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( look, M uriiiion, Ct., b. 1761 Burton 

Curtiss, Keuben Parknian 

Damon, Abraham, Mass Hambden 

Davenport, Squire Hambden 

Donaldson, Samuel Middletield 

l)u rand, Andrew, Ct Burton 

E^eston, £Jab, N. Y Auburn 

Elliot, John, Mass Hambden 

1-Yllows, Parker, Mass Chester 

Ford, Nathan, Ct Claridon 

Fowler, Caleb, Ct., 1755-1822 Burton 

Gilson, Daniel, Mass., 1761-1845 Middlefield 

( tordon, Nathan Newbury 

Haves, Beth, Mass Burton 

Herrick, Libeus, Ct Burton 

Hopkins, Capt. Ebenezer, Vt, 1761-1838. .Troy 

Hosmer, Zachariah Parkman 

Hickox, Nathaniel, Ct Hambden 

Hutch ins, Moses, Mass Middletield 

Johnson, Benjamin, Ct, 1761-1825 Burton 

Johnson, Jonathan Russell 

KentneLd, EbenezC/*Mass Hambden 

Kidder, Reuben, Mass Claridon 

King, Benjamin, Ct Hambden 

Loveland, Frederick, Mass Newbury 

Mast irk, Benjamin Claridon 

.Morgan, Daniel Hambden 

Northrup, Stephen .Munson 

Tarks, Nathan, .Mass Burton 

Pease, tsaac, CM Hambden 

Phelps, Ira, L763-1848 Troy 

Phelps, Seth, N. v., d. 1826 Parkman 

Pomeroy, [chabod, Mass 1 [ambden 

Pomeroy, Daniel, rt Thompson 

Tool, Jepthah, L751-1838 Troy 

Potter, Borden, L764-1846 Troy 

Quiggle, Peter Hambden 

Rider, Benjamin, Mass Ohardon 

Russell, Gideon, Oi RusseU 



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Smith, Josiah Claridon 

Stair, Samuel M., Ot Ilambden 

Stocking, Reuben Hambden 

Thompson, Lieut. Isaac, 1751-1823, Penn. 

Middlefield 

Trask, Retire, Penn Thompson 

Wells, Timothy, Ct., d. 1820 Claridon 

Wilson, Israel Montvi I le 

Witter, Joseph, Mass Bainbridge 

Wilcox, Elnathan Huntsburg 



Traces of these Revolutionary Pensioners in 
Geauga-Lake Co. have been found, but graves 
not located. 

James Blair, N. H. ; Serg. Jonathan Gard- 
ner, N. J. ; Reuben Lake, Conn. ; Samuel Hemin- 
\\ ay, Mass. ; Nathan Ganson, Mass., d. May 2, 
1827; John Green, Mass.; Joseph Lane, N. Y. ; 
Jonathan Pratt, Mass.; Oliver Robison, Mass.; 
Peter Thompson, N. H. 

Stephen Dun well, Ct., b. 1762, d. 1840 ; buried 
on farm in Solon, Cuyahoga Co., O. ; grave ob- 
literated, served three years from Apr. 5, 1777 to 
Apr. 5, 1780. 

Cyprian Parrish, N. Y., b. at Fredericksburg, 
N. Y., April 4, 1766, enlisted Apr. 1779; served 
15 months under different officers, traced to 
Genesee Co., Mich. 

Mary ("aril, widow of John Carll, of Maine, 
who served in Mass. troops nine months in 1781, 
under ('apt. Pike, Col. Calvin Smith; d. at 
Waterborongh, Maine, Sept. 20, 1S33. 

Lydia Chappell, widow of William Chappell 
of Conn. 

Arter Graham, b. L757, d. Oct 29, 1SI1 ; not 
verified. 



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View on Grand River. Lake County, Ohio. 




Gov. Samuel Huntington's House— Built in I 8 I 0— Photographed l<>02 



New Connecticut Chapter Daughters of the American 
Revolution 

(1) To perpetuate the memory of the spirit of the nun and 
women who achieved American Independence, by the acquisi- 
tion and protection of historical spots, and the erection ot 
monuments; by the encouragement of historical research in 
relation to the Revolution and the publication of its results; by 
the preservation of documents and relics, and of the records of 
the individual services of Revolutionary soldiers and patriots, 
and by the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic anni- 
versaries. 

(2) To carry out the injunction of Washington in his fare- 
well address to the American people, "To promote, as an object 
of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of 
knowledge," thus developing an enlightened public opinion, 
and affording to young and old such advantages as shall de- 
velop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of 
American citizens. 

(3) To cherish, maintain, and extend the institutions of 
American freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of coun- 
try, and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of 
liberty. 

These are the objects of the society called The Daughters 
of the American Revolution. The Chapter at Painesville, Ohio, 
bearing the name "New Connecticut," has in its five years of 
existence endeavored to carry out these duties in many prac- 
tical ways. 

Springing into existence just at the time of the war with 
Spain for the freedom of Cuba, the work of the Chapter cen- 
tered on rendering assistance to our soldiers, especially Com- 
pany M, of the 5th Ohio Regiment, which was recruited in 
Painesville. Time and money were freely spent to make their 
life in the swamps of Florida more endurable. Much aid was 
given the Red Cross Society; money contributed to the Hos- 
pital Launch "Missouri," and no opportunity lost to help hear 
the miafortnnea Of war, and to relieve the suffering. 

Prizes have been given tor the best essays on Historical 
subjects, by High School pupils. 

The practical aid from the Chapter made it possible to 

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erect a monument to Gen. Edward Paine, a Revolutionary 
officer; the founder of Painesville, and the one whose name it 
had borne for a century. 

Through the influence of the Daughters of the American 
Revolution, Painesville's Centennial was celebrated, and a his- 
torical paper published to commemorate the day. 

Our soldiers in the Philippines have been remembered 
with books and money for the Ohio alcove of the library at 
Manilla. 

A book-case in the Painesville Public Library holds many 
valuable historical works, loaned to, or purchased by the 
society. 

The Chapter contributes to the erection of Continental 
Hall, in Washington, D. C, which shall be a lasting memorial 
to all Revolutionary soldiers and sailors. 

During the five years of its existence, the society has given 
more than $500 for patriotic and benevolent purposes. 

Its last work, though not the least, has been the locating 
of the Revolutionary Soldiers' graves of Lake County, and 
bringing to memory the lives of those men who achieved 
American Independence first, and afterward bore the hard- 
ships incident to the settling of a new country. It was a fear- 
less spirit, coupled with necessity, that led them to undertake 
the dangerous task of subduing the western wilderness. 

The name of the Chapter, New Connecticut, is an inspira- 
tion, being the first name given to this part of the country by 
the surveying party of Moses Cleaveland. On this occasion, 
the fifty men, women, and children of the party having landed 
at "Conneaught" creek on Monday, July 4, 1796, after a peri- 
lous journey by land and water, ranged themselves on the 
beach of old Lake Erie, and fired a Federal salute of fifteen 
rounds, and then in honor of the new state, to be founded, 
they fired a sixteenth to the name of "New Connecticut." 

As we offer the results of our labors to an indulgent public> 
we feel that it is not inappropriate to allude to, and commend 
the earnest, the patriotic, the sisterly spirit that has at all 
times pervaded and characterized our chapter, and to look 
forward to a continuation of such valuable and appropriate 
work in our special lines, as such a spirit alone is able to insure. 



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Membership Roll of New Connecticut Chapter, 

Daughters of the American Revolution, 

Painesville Ohio, 1902. 

ADAMS, GRACE ABIGAIL, Nat No. 31,051, 
Painesville, 0. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Moses Adams, 
who enlisted for three years in a .Mass. Etegt. and 
whose name appears as Corporal and Sergeant. 
Died June 28, L778. 

ALVORD, MRS. BELEN BINE, Nat. No. 
24,891, Painesville, O. 

< treat-granddaughter of Noble I line, who was 
Capt. of a company during the Danbury Said, 
Apr. 25-28, 1777; and who also turned out to 
repel the enemy at New Haven, July .">, 1771); 
Tryon's [nvasion. 

Great-granddaughter of Abraham Skinner, 
who was a Private in Captain Amasa Loomis' 
Co., and who marched t«> the relief of Boston 
in the Lexington Alarm, Apr. r.>, 177.">. Enlisted 
again Apr. 24, L778 for eight months. 

AVERY, MRS. [ONE LESTER, Nat No. 

24,288, Cleveland, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Samuel Lester 
Jr. Great-granddaughter of Benajah Lester 
Father and son, both of whom enlisted as Priv- 
ates in Capt. Gallup's company, in Eighth Regi- 
ment at New York, Sept 8, 1776. 

1 discharged Nov. 9 and 17. L776. 



AVERY, EVELYN, Nat No. 21,271, Cleveland, 
Ohio. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Starr, 
who was born in 1724, and was in the expedition 
for the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757; 
was .Major in the Continental Army, and lost his 
life by an accident, Apr. 27, 1777, at Danburv. 
Conn., just after his return from a relief expedi- 
tion to New York City. 

Great-granddaughter of Frederick Jones 
Whiting, (son-in-law of the above) born 1757, 
died 1804. He was a Lieut, in Conn. Troops; 
was a ni ember of the order of Cincinnatns, his 
certificate of membership signed by Generals 
Knox and Washington being in existence. 

Great-granddaughter of Nathan Avery, who 
was a Private in ("apt. Samuel Holding Parsons 
1st Co. at New London, Conn.; was at Banker 
Hill; in 177<> a Private In Capt. Edward Mott's 
Co. for defence of New London Harbor; a pen- 
sioner. 

BAKER, MRS. MARY AUGUSTA WOLFF, 

Nat. No. 33,533, Painesville, O. 

< treat-great-granddaughter of < Jhristopher 

Trnby, who was a civil officer, and < Japl . of West - 
moreland Co., Penn. Militia, served in the War 
of the Revolution. 

< treat-granddaughter of Samuel Murphy, who 
enlisted as Private in the stli Virginia Etegl : 
again for three years in L3th Virginia Regt; in 
L781 was captured by Indians, sold to the British, 
who imprisoned him on an island in the St. Law- 
rence River, from which be escaped in 17S2. 

Great-granddaughter of .ia<-oi> Wolff, a pen- 
sioner of Armstrong <'<»., Penn; he also received 
a grant of land; was at the battles of German- 
town, Brandywine, and wintered at Valley Forge. 

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BARTHOLOMEW, MRS. FLORENCE, Nat 
No. 39,724, Buntsburg, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Childs Taylor, a sol- 
dier in the War of the Revolution, stationed at 
Ticonderoga, also at Montreal, Canada; later 
was ;ii ( icrnciiitowii and Princeton. 

BARROWS, MRS. GERTRUDE WYMAN, 
Nat. No. H,057, Painesville, 0. 

Great-granddaughter of William Wyman Sr., 
Granddaughter of William Wyman Jr., who were 
privates in Capt. Fish's Co., Col. Fletcher's Bat- 
talion in the service of Vermont, also in Capt. 
Whitney's company of Vermont Militia, Wm. 
W'vman Jr. was also a private in Capt. Hutchin's 
company, Vermont Troops stationed ;ii Fort Cas- 
tletoD where he was wounded in a Bkirmish with 
Tories and Indians. 

Great-granddaughter of Nathan Baton, who 
was a private in Capt. .Ma ivy's Co., Col. Chester's 
Connecticut Regiment; served in New Jersey in 
the battles of Trenton and stony Point. 

A pensioner. 

Great-granddaughter of Silas Antisdel, who 
was a private in Capt. Ebenezer Heath's com- 
pany, from the town of Willington, Conn, for 
the relief of Boston in the "Lexington Alarm," 
Apr. L775. 

Great-granddaughter of dames Parker, who, 
in March 1781, joined the Battalion under Brig. 
Gen. Waterbury, which was raised to defend the 

sea coast from Horse Neck to \ew Haven inclu- 
sive, and in duly joined Washington while he was 
encamped at Phillipsburg. 

BLACKMON, MKS. UW MATH I0WS, Nat. 
No. 21,265, Painesville, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Thomas Dean, 
who served as corporal at th<- battle of Bunker 

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Hill, and on other occasions as Sergeant, Lieut- 
enant and Captain in Col. Girdley's Keginient 
of Artillery at Boston. He was born Aug. 6, 
1754, and enlisted in May 1775. In Oct. 177S 
he went to sea, and was taken prisoner by the 
British, and carried to the Barbadoes Islands. 
where he was killed by a hurricane in March list'. 
aged 26 years. 

Great -great-great-granddaughter of Jabez 
Huntington, liorn in Norwich, Conn., Aug. 2, 
1719. A graduate of Yale, and in May 1750 was 
elected to the Connecticut House of Representa- 
tives in the General Assembly. He was speaker 
of the House until .May 1764. 

In the Revolutionary War he was one of the 
Council of Safety and Maj. (Jen. of Militia until 
poor health compelled him to resign all offices. 
After seven years illness he died Oct. 5, 1786. 

BURROWS, MRS. CLARA E. WOODRUFF. 
Nat. No., 21,261), Painesville, O. 

Granddaughter of Gedor Woodruff, who 
served three years and three months as private 
in Connecticut Regiments and participated in 
the battle of Fori Independence. Was a pen- 
sioner under the tirst general pension act of L818. 

CARPENTER, MRS. ANNIE MILLER, Nat. 
No. 21,261, Painesville, 0. 

Great-great-granddaughter of George Her- 
kimer, who was a member of the "Committee 
of Safely," was Captain of 8th Company, 1th 
Battalion, Tryon County Militia and Colonel of 

.Minute .Men under command of General Her- 
kimer. 

OOLLACOTT, MRS. MARY HOVER, Nat. No. 
31,052, Painesville, ( >. 

Great great-granddaughter of Edward Paine, 
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who served as ensign in a company of Connect i- 
nit Militia. Was afterward First Lieutenant ; 
then Captain, Baring as such until the close of 
the War; was in active service more than two 
years; was a pensioner. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Eleazer Paine, 
win) enlisted duly 5, 17S0 in ('apt. Bett's Co., 2nd 
Connecticut Regt>, commanded by Col. Zebulou 
Butler for six months as a drummer; discharged 
Dec. !i, L780. Bora L764, died 1804. 

( ireat-great-great-granddaughter of Stephen 

Paine, who served as a private in Captain John 
Spurr's Company, 6th Massachusetts Kejji incut, 
commanded l».v Colonel Thomas Nixon, in the 
Kevoliitioiiary War. 

He enlisted IVb. 1, 1777. for three years, and 
was discharged Feb. 1, L780. lie witnessed the 
surrender of Burgoyne. 

CUMING8, JULIA ALICE, Nat. No. 2,616. 

CUM I X( JS, STELLA LOUISE, Nat. No. 37,847, 
Painesville, O. 

Great-great-granddanghterfl of Joseph Kings- 
bury, who was a member of the Connecticut 
General Assembly from 1777 to L785; was a 
delegate From Enfield, Conn, to the Convention 
to ratify the Constitution of the United States. 

Great-granddaughters of Benj. Cumings Sr., 

a Lieut, in the New Hampshire Continental 
Regiments From llollis, who served in the Lex- 
ington Campaign in 177.~> and in the Cambridge 
campaign For 8 months in I77r> and in the Conti- 
nental Army one year 1 77<l. 

Great-granddaughters of John Whitaker, a 
private In Walker's Company of New Hampshire 
Militia. 

Great-granddaughters of Jacob Sill, who 
served as private in Massachusetts Regiment. 

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Great- granddaughters of William Poole, who 
participated in the capture of Ticonderoga. 

Great-granddaughters of Lemuel Kingsbury, 
who assisted in the Lexington Alarm, and later 
became Lieut, in the 5th Regiment, Light Horse, 
L776-1778. 



DANIELSON, MRS. NELLIE V., Nat. No. 
-(1,245, Erie, Penn. Transferred to Pres- 
que Isle Chapter. 

Great-granddaughter of Christopher Colson, 
who enlisted July 9, 1781 as fifer, and served in 
Captain Peter Claye's and Captain J. K. Smith's 
companies, under the command of Lieut. Colonel 
Calvin Smith in the 6th .Massachusetts Regiment. 

Great-granddaughter of Ebenezer Wilson, 
who served in an alarm in Rhode Island in Capt. 
Robert Crosman's company, Col. George Wil- 
liams' Regiment. Born at Swansea, Mass., .May 
16, 1745. Enlisted Dec. 8, 177(>. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Israel Pox, 
who enlisted in I77<i for three months with Col. 

Talcott; again in 1777 for three months with 

Capt. Hale, and Col. Woodbridgej three months 
in 177!>; in June L780 he enlisted for six months 
with Capt. Phelps, lie witnessed the execution 
of .M:ij. Andre. 

Born in Glastonbury:, Conn, in L755. 

DARROW, MRS. ADELLA FIELD, Nat No. 

::r».:.::s, Gainesville, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of David Field, 
whose ii.iine appears on a lisi of Field Officers of 
the Massachusetts .Militia, ;is Colonel of the 5th 
Bampshire <'<»miiv Regiment. Commissioned 
Feb. 8, 177C 



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FOWLER, MRS. MARY M. DONALDSON. 
Nat. No. 24,892, Painesville, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Jonathan Pish, a pri- 
vate in Captain Moses Branch's company of Con 
nrct inn men in the Revolutionary War; entered 
the service Jan. 8, 1778. 

FORD, MRS. CONNIE E., Nat. No. U,560, 
Burton, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Thaddens Bradley, 
who w;is a private in the War of the Revolution, 
enlisting at Cheshire, (Num., in May 177.") under 
Capt. Josiah Wright, and Col. Ethan Allen, 
served anl il I >ec. 1 775. 

Enlisted again in March 1770 ander <";i|>t. 
Jere Parmley, Col. Samuel Elmore and served 
one year. 

Was in the batl le of Ticonderoga ; in garrison 
;ii Fori Schuyler and Fori Stanwix; a resident 
of Burton, Ohio, born 1756, died lsio. 

FRANK, MRS. HELEN DUNNING, Nat. No. 
21,262, Painesville, O. Withdrawn. 

Great-great-granddaughter of David Beach, 
who enlisted June \2 t 1 77r> as a private in C 
Bostwick's company, Col. Charles Webb's sev- 
enth Conn. regt. The regimenl was ordered to 
Boston Camps and assigned to Gen. Sullivan's 
Brigade al Winter Hill. 

David Beach served until Dee. 21, 177.". His 
regimenl w;is adopted as ;i Continental Regiment. 

From Jan. 1, 1777 until Dec. 1, 177X lie was 
Bergeanl in the 3d Regt., Conn. Line., and wasen- 

■ d in the battle of Germantown, <><t. i. 1777. 
and wintered nt Valley Forge; participated in 
the batte of Monmouth June 28, 1 77^ and al the 
Btorming of Stony Point July 5, 177!'. lie was 

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promoted to a Lieutenancy Jan. 4, 1778 and con- 
tinued in service be i i i * - end of the war. Was an 
original member of the order of the Cincinnati 

GOODWIN, MAUY C, Nat. No. 39,725, Char 
don, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Childs Taylor, who 
participated in the engagements at Germantown 
and Princeton; was also stationed at Ticonder- 
oga and Montreal, Canada. 

(J KANT, MRS. SADIE M., Nat. No. 24,289, 
Painesville, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Reuben Buch- 
man, who was a private in a Massachusetts Reg- 
iment, and a pensioner. Pension granted March 
4, 1831. 

GRISWOLD, MRS. MARIA LOUISE, Nat. 
No. 27,843, Painesville, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Benj. Car- 
penter, who as private answered to the "Lexing- 
ton Alarm" marching from Kehohoth, \l. I. His 
name appears in service during L775-1777-1778 
and L780. His wife Lucy Allen was a sister of 
Ethan Allen. 

BOXETT, MBS. CAROLINE AMELIA 
BROOKS, Nat. No. 24,893, Gilroy, Oal. 

Granddaughter of Stephen Brooks, who was 
;i private <»n the Lexington Alarm, roll of Cap- 
tain William VVHtcomD's Co., Col. Jas. PrescottfB 
Regt., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 
1 7 7 r» from Stow, Massachusetts; was also in 

C;i|>t. Annisa < 'i;i nston's Co., stationed at White 
Plains. 

Great-granddaughter of Luke Brooks, who 

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With his son also answered to the Lexington 
Alarm of Apr. 19, 177r>, and was after ward's in 
Capt Benj. Monroe's 6th Company, iih Mass. 
regiment. 

Great-granddaughter of Daniel RuggJr., who 

was First Lieutenant in ('apt. John White -Irs. 
Co., Col. .Josiah Whitney's (2nd Worcester Co.) 
Begtj again his name appears as Lieutenant of 
Capt William (Jreenleafs company, Col. Josiah 

Whitney's regt.j thenas Captain in 1st Company 
or 2nd Worcester Co., commanded by Col. .Josiah 

Whitney. Served three vents and more. 

Great-granddaughter of Isaac Qoodspeed, 
who wasa private in Capt Bphriam Btockwell's 
company who marched to Bennington to rein 
force Gen. Stark. Served also in Capt Benj. 
Nye's Company, Biaj. Jonas Wilder's Kegiment. 

Residence Barre, .Mass. 

Great-granddaughter of John Whitcomb,whe 
participated in the battle of Banker Bill. Hav- 
ing received official notice that he had been made 
Maj. General, he was next in rank to the com- 
mander-in-chief (Gen. Pntnam). This was a pro- 
vincial appointment, imt the Continental Con- 
gress on June 5, 1776, made him Brig. (Jen. and 
Washington announced his intention of assign- 
in- him ; ,t once to the command of the forces*' n 
Mass., relieving (Jen. Ward, who had resigned 
but Gen. Wnitcomb asked "to be excused on ac- 
count of age and a diffidence of not being aide 
to answer the expectations of Congress." Prior 
to the war lie had been a member of the General 
Court for 20 years. In the French and Indian 
war he held the offices of Lieut. Col. and CoL 
Fought at Tioonderoga and in Crown Point ex- 
pedition. 

JEROME, MRS. LUCY E. D., Nat. No. 2L263 

Gainesville, ( ). 

Great granddaughter of Asa Sprague, whose 

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name appears with the rank of Corporal on the 
Lexington Alarm Roll of ('apt. Ebeneaer .Mason's 
('<»., which marched on the alarm of Apr. 19, 
177") from Spencer, .Mass. It also appears with 
rank of Serjeant on -Muster and Pay Boll of 
('apt. David Prouty's Co., Maj. Asa Baldwin's 
division of Worcester County Regiment, which 
marched to reinforce the Northern Army by order 
of Council of Sept. 22, 1777. 

KEECH, MBS. MARY W. S., Nat. No. 33,056, 
Perry, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Richard Sin- 
clair of Barnstead, who served as Captain in 
Col. Thomas Bartlett's Regiment raised to join 
the Continental Army at West Point in L780. 
Afterwards served in the capacity of Maj. and 
Col. of Militia. In 1700 daring the French and 
Indian War Richard Sinclair enlisted in ('apt. 
Jeremiah Marston's Co. and served until the 

close of the war. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Win. Wyman 
Sr. Great-granddaughter of Win. Wyman Jr. 
Great-great-granddaughter of Nathan Baton. 
Great-great-granddaughter of Silas Antisdel. 
Great-great-granddaughter of James Parker. 

For military service see Mrs. H.irrows. 

KING, MRS. JANES., Nat. No. 21,264, Paines- 

ville, 0. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Solomon Cut- 
ler, who was Captain on the .Muster and Pay 
Roll <'f tin- Officers and men of Bnocfa Sale's Regi- 
inent which marched from the count ies of Che- 
shire ami Hillsborough, X. II. at the requisition 
of Maj. General Gates to reinforce the army a1 
Ticonderoga, 

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KING, MBS. JOSEPHINE, Nat. No. 33,057, 
Painesville, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Titus Hayes, who 
was a private in Capt Woodbridge's Company, 
rth Regiment, Connecticut Line. Enlisted May 
2ti, 1777 for thrge years. Fought at Germantown 
Oct. 4, 177*3 and ai Montreal and Valley Forge, 
1778-1779, and on June 28 following was present 
«•»' ""' battle of Monmouth. 

Encamped during the Bummer at White 
Plains. 

KNAPP, MBS. MILDBED ABMSTBONG 

Nat. No. U,058, Painesville, (). 

Great-great-granddaughter of David A Men 
Jr., who served as private in Col. Henry Jack- 
son's Regt (.Mass), aged 22. A pensions. 

Great-great-great-granddaughter of David .vi- 
deo Si-., wh<> was a private in Capt. Benj Phil- 
1'l's Co., Oo I. Elisha Porter's Regt, (Hampshire 
n, . v - Mass-) EJnlisted July 1<>, 1777. and ser- 
ved in the Northern Department. 

LAWBENCE, MABTHA ELIZABETH, \at 
No. 31,053, Painesville, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Elisha Sawyer Jr., 
who was First Lieutenant in Massachusetts Bay 
Militia, in Li,., it. Col. Ephraim Sawyer's Regi- 
ment, which marched as a reinforcement for the 
Northern Army on Oct 2, 1777: also marched 
on an alarm at Bennington in August 1777. 

McABEE, MBS. MABY GBEEN, Nat. \o 
27,842, Painesville, 0. 

Great-granddaughter of Charles Reicharl 
who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution 
ror I ennsylvania ; a pensioner. 

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McKINSTRY, HARRIETT ELVIRA, Nat No. 
l'ainesville, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Capt Salmon 
While, who waa born at Bolton, Conn., and died 
at Wnately, Mass., .June 21, 1815. 

He served in the Wax of the Revolution, ap- 
pearing first on a list of officers of Mass. Militia, 
March 22, 177(>. Commissioned Apr. 5, 177U, 
Capt. of 12th Co., 2nd Hampshire Co. Regt. ; 
again in CoL Woodbridge's Regt. four days in 
Aug. 1777, marched by order of Gen. Horatio 
<iatcs for service in Northern Department; also 
in Col. Ezra May's Regt. from Sept. 20 to Oct. 
14, 1777, marched to Saratoga; again in Col. 
Israel < Shapin's Regt., July 6, 1778. 

C teat-granddaughter of Daniel Williams, 
born in 1761, died at Clymer, N. Y., Feb. 15, 
ISM). lie served lor Mass. as private in Capt. 
Christopher Bannister's Co., Col. David Wells' 
Regt. from May 8 to July 8, 1777. Company 
ma relied to Ticonderoga ; again in Capt. John 
Kirklands' Co., Col. John Dickenson's Regt., for 
eight days service in Aug. 1777, marched to 
Bennington on an alarm; in Capt. Benjamin 
Bonney's Co., CoL Ezra May's Begt from Sepl 
2o. 1777 to Oct. 1 1, 1777. Company marched t<> 
Stillwater. 

MOODBT, MRS. LYDIA STEELE, Nat. No. 
21,268, Painesville, ( >. 

Great-granddaughter of Benjamin Palmer, 

who enlisted ;it Grafton, Mass. in L782, Under 

Capt. Francis in the Mass. Begt. commanded by 
Col. Tapper. During his set-vice he was trans* 
ferred to Beveral different companies and regi- 
ments and when discharged June 30, L784, it 
was from the Company of Capt. Jackson in the 
Regiment of Col. Sprout, at Westfleld, X. V. 

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He was under cliar^c Jnne 30, 1784 at West 
Point. 'Wax for many years a pensioner. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Peter Clark, 
a soldier of the Revolution from New Hampshire. 

Sec Mrs. Richardson. 

HUNGER, MBft. EMILY a. (} ILL, Nat. No. 
13,686, < teneva, O. 

Great-granddaughter of John Gill, who en- 
listed March 6, 1 777 as private in ('apt. Elijah 
Blackmail's Company, Ool. Benry Sherburn's 
Regiment of < Connecticut. 

Great-granddaughter of Benjamin Ely, who 
was born Dec. 25, L730, and died Dec. 25, 1S02. 
A representative i<» the State Legislature during 
the Revolutionary War. Was chosen by the Leg- 
islature Jan. 31, L776 as ls1 Major of 3rd Hamp- 
shire County Regiment. Again under Col. Tim- 
othy Robinson, his name appears as .Major, 
marching Aug 21, 177(; to Ticonderoga, by order 

of < iell. Scliuvler. 

NOBLE, MBS. LYDIA P., Nat. No. 30,140, 
Painesville, ( >. 

Granddaughter of Edward Paine, who was 
born ;it Bolton, Conn, in L746. He served ;is En- 
sign, Lieutenant and Captain in Connecticut .Mil- 
itia throughout the war. Later lie was Brigadier 
Genera] of Militia in New York state. 

He came t<> Ohio in 17!>7, in I7!i!> to Paines- 
ville, bringing his family in 1800. Painesville 
hears his name. 

See biography elsev here. 

NYE, MBS. ELEANOB MUBBAY, Nat. No. 
37,015, Painesville, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of William Stu- 



art, who was a private in Capt. William Camp- 
bell's Company, Seventh Battalion, Cumberland 
Count v .Militia, under Col. James Purdv, May 1, 
1780. ' 

PAIGE, MIIS. CAROLINE WILCOX, Nat. No. 
31,809, Painesville, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Dea. Abel Wilcox, 

a soldier in Capt. Bezelial Bristol's Company, 

which answered to the alarm of East Haven. 
Conn., July 7, 1779. Was one of the "common*' 
men during the war. 

Great-granddaughter of Capt. Martin Lord, 
who was horn in Saybrook, Conn., June 5, 1712, 
died Dec. 15, 1821, and was buried at Killings- 
worth, Conn. He was a Capt. in the 7th Regi- 
ment of the Connecticut Militia. This regiment 
was called out in the New Haven Alarm July .">, 
177i>, to repel Oeneral Tryon. 

PEARL, MBS. NANCY DOTY, Nat. No. 
10,578, Pulton, O. 

"Ileal daughter" of Peter Doty, who served 
during the War of the Revolution in the New 
Jersey Militia; a pensioner. Born in Prance in 
17."7 and died near Mt. Vernon, < >. in is is, at the 
age of 90 years, in months, and thirteen days. 

Mrs. Pearl was born Feb. 8, L808, passing 

away in the fall of L902, being nearly ninety- 
live years old. We mourn the loss of this, OUT 

oldest "real daughter." 

RICHARDSON, MRS. LAURA ALEXANDER, 
Nat. No. 21,259, New York City. 

Great great great granddaughter of Peter 
Olark, \\ ho joined the Continental Army in I77r>, 
in Lyndeboro, N. 11., and that same year was com' 

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MRS. SUSAN TRUBY 



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missioned Capt. of the 9th Kegt., N. H. Millitia. 
He was engaged in the battle of Bennington, 
commanding sixty men. In this battle he Bhowed 
great bravery, being second to scale the British 
breast works. He also took part in tin- defeat 
of Gen. Burgoyne at Saratoga in 1777. 

Under the command of Lieut. Samuel Hous- 
ton, he marched at the head of a company of 
men from Lyndeboro for Ticonderoga, duly 1777. 
Wms ( ';ipt. of a company in < 5ol. SI ickney's Kegt., 
Gen. Stark's brigade of X. H. militia, which 
joined the Northern Continental Army. Capt. 
also of a company in Col. Daniel Moore's Kegt. 
of volunteers which marched from Lyndeboro, 
Sept. 1777, and joined the Continental Army. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Benjamin Pal- 
mer, a Revolutionary soldier from Massachusel is. 

See .M is. MoodCJT, 

SEARL, MRS. LIZZIE TISDEL, Nat. No. 
21,266, Painesville, 0. 

Great-granddaughter of Silas Antisdel, who 

was a Private in Capt. Heath's Willington, Conn. 
Company; in Lexington Alarm. 

Great-granddaughter of dames Parker, who 
was a private in Capt. Dana's Company, Gen. 
Waterbury's Connecticut Brigade, under (Jen. 
Washington at Phillipsburg. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Col. Benj. Ely, 
who was a Major of I he ^n] 1 [ampshire < Jo., .Mass. 
Regt., also Colonel of Militia; a Representative 

in the Legislature of .Massachusetts. 

scott. Mi;s. EMMA ADAMS. Nat No. 
31,054, died at Painesville, <>., Apr. L2, 
L901. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Moses Adams, 

who served three years in Massachusetts regi- 



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meats, wit li rank of Corporal and Sergeant. 
Died .1 une 28, 1778. 

BTOOKWELL, MRS. MARY AUGUSTA 
AVEKY, Nat. No. 20,035, Painesville, O. 

.Mrs. Btoctwell organized the chapter and was 
its tirst Regent. 

( treat-granddaughter of Jonathan Avery, who 
served in the War of the Revolution as a private 
in ('apt. James Chapman's Co. of New London, 
5th Co., 6th Regt 

This regiment was raised on the first call for 
troops in Apr. -.May 1 77.~> ; was also a Sergeant, 

and received a pension. 

Great-granddaughter of John Pease, a Revo* 
lntionnry soldier from Connecticut ; a pensioner, 
lie served on Lake Champlain at Ticonderoga, 
and in the retreat from Long Island into West 
Chester Co., serving there under (Jen. Washing- 
ton. 

TISDEL, MARY ELIZABETH, Nat. No. 
21,2t;7. Painesville, O. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Silas Antisdel. 

Great-great-granddaughter of James Parker. 
Great-great-great-granddaughter of Col. Benj. 
Ely. 

For service of ancestry see Mrs. Searl. 

TRUBT, MBS. srs.w MURPHY, Nat No. 
27,844, Painesville. < >. 

"Real daughter" of Samuel Murphy, who en- 
listed in 177"» for one year in Eighth Virginia 
Regiment; in 1777 for three years in Thirteenth 
Virginia Regiment; in L781 for one year in Vir- 
ginia M ilil ia ; a pensioner. 

Mrs. TrubT w.is horn in South Buffalo town- 



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ship, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, June 28, 
L810, is in fair health, and we hope will remain ;; 
-Krai Daughter" for many years to come. 

TUTTLB, NATALIE AGNES THOMPSON, 
Xai. No. 31,055, Painesville, 0. 

Greal granddaughter of Tin. mas Thompson, 
wh.> served in the Continental Army in ('aid. 
Co-swell's Co. {2nd), Col. Wessmfs Regt. from 
Bept. 1 1, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1771). 

Residence Halifax: also in Capt. W. Watson's 
Company, Ool. Wesson's Regt from -Ian. I. L780 
i" June l. l .so, enlisted again .Inly 5, L780, dis- 
charged Dec. L9, L780. 

His Dame appears on a list of men dated Camp 
Totoway Oct. l\\ L780, as passing muster. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Joseph ('nil, 
who served in the Militia of Vermont in Capt. 
.John Benjamin's Company, Col. -Joseph Marsh's 
Regt. from Aug. L5 to Oct. I, 1777. 

lie served on several scouting parties and 
alarms; he was appointed by the "Committee of 
Safety" to watch and guard suspected persons 
as enemies of the United States of America, 

Great-great-great-granddaughter of Samuel 
Dutton 8r.,of Littleton, .Mass., who served in 
Capt. Samuel Reid's company of minute-men, 
Col. William Prescott's Regt., which marched on 

the alarm of Apr. m, 1775. 

Great-great-granddaughter of* Samuel Dutton 
dr.. whose name appears in a list of men raised in 
Middlesex county for Continental service, resi- 
dence Westford, engaged for the town of West- 
ford, Mass. 

« ''ic.it great-grandd of Richard Sin- 

clair. For military service see Mrs. Keech. 

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TYLER, MBS. CAROLINE B., Nat. No. 13,688, 
( feneva, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Col. Benjamin Ely, 

who was a Major of t lie 3rd Hampshire Co., Mass. 
Regt., also Colonel of Militia; a representative in 
the Legislature of Massachusetts. 

Great-granddaughter of John Gill, who served 
three years in Capt. Blackman's Company, Col- 
onel Sherburne's Regiment, Connecticut Troops. 

VIALL, MRS. ADA OSBORN, Nat. No. 21,269, 
Painesville, O. 

< treat-great-granddaughter of Daniel Os- 
borne, who, as private in Capt. Lemuel 
Si on tih ton's company, marched from the town of 
East Windsor, Conn., for the relief of Boston in 
the Lexington Alarm, Apr. 1775. He was also 
Sergeant in Capt. John Gray's company, Col. 
Lemuel Whiting's Regt. Marched Oct. 5, 1777. 

< heat i: i cat-granddaughter of Abner Prior, 
who enlisted from Hartford, Conn., and whose 
name appears as < Saptain in Maj. Bradley's Regt ; 
and again as Major. He served in the French 
and Indian War in 1755 and 17r>»;. 

Great-granddaughter of Stephen Brooks, 
Great-great-granddaughter of Luke Brooks. 
Great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Rugg dr. 
Great-great-granddaughter of Isaac Goodspeed. 
Great-great-granddaughter <>f John Whitcomb. 

For military service see Mrs. Hoxett. 

WARREN, MRS. KATE T. If., Nat. No. 

i>.7l' I. Painesville, <>. 

Great-great-granddaughter of Daniel Tilden, 

who enlisted in the Oonn. troops «»f the Revolu- 
tionary War at Lebanon. Conn., and served un- 
der < Jol. I >urkee. 

Daniel Tilden crossed the Delaware with 



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Washington. Be was at Washington's side in 
crossing. After the battle of Lexington in 1775, 
a company went from Lebanon to aid in defence 
of Boston, and Daniel Tildeo served as Captain 
nine days. In April or May 177.") he was 1st 
Lieut, with Capt. Little of 6th Co. of 3rd Kegt., 
under Col. Israel Putnam until Dec. 10, 1775, 
and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. In 1776 
the Regt. called Col. Durkee's was raised in 
which Daniel Tilden was Adjutant and promoted 
to Capt. Sept. 7, 1776. 

On the first call for troops by the Legislature 
his Regiment marched from Boston to New York 
and was stationed at Bergen Heights and Paulus 
Hook, New Jersey until Sept. 15, 1776. He ac- 
< ompanied Washington in his retreat through 
New Jersey and was in the battle of Trenton, 
N. J., Dec. 25, 1776, and the battle of Princeton, 
Jan. 3, 1777. 

Great -ureat-granddaughter of Joseph Loomis, 
who served as a Private from Connecticut in the 
War of the Revolution. 

WILCOX, MARY E., Nat. No. 22,990, Paines- 

ville, O. 

Great-granddaughter of Dea. Abel W r ilcox, 
who served in an alarm at East Haven, Conn., 
July 7, 1779, in Captain Bezelial Bristol's Cum 
pany. 

Great-granddaughter of Capt. .Martin Lord, 
who was born in Saybrook, Conn., Jan. 5, 1712. 

WY.MAN. MRS, MARY E. T., Nat. No. 21,270, 
Painesville, O. 

Great-granddaughter of siins Antisdel, who 
sen ed in the Lexington Alarm. 

Great-granddaughter of James Parker, who 

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served in Waterburj', Conn. Brigade under Wash- 
ing on at Phillipsburg. 

Great-granddaughter of Col. Benjamin Ely, 
a Col. of Militia; a Representative in the Legis- 
lature of Mass. Residence West Springfield. 

< ;i<; it granddaughter of John Gill, who 
served three years in Conn. Troops. 



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